Comments on: Chronological history of Low’s Gully Expedition http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html Beyond Borneo's Majestic Mountain Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: s61-A Crew http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html/comment-page-1#comment-5999 s61-A Crew Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:20:45 +0000 http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html#comment-5999 We did fly into the Low's Gully in 1994 to pick up the 5 survivors. We did fly into the Low’s Gully in 1994 to pick up the 5 survivors.

]]> By: joe http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html/comment-page-1#comment-5891 joe Sun, 08 May 2011 13:01:59 +0000 http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html#comment-5891 http://www.kevie.be/LowsGully.pdf http://www.kevie.be/LowsGully.pdf

]]> By: C. Herman http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html/comment-page-1#comment-5591 C. Herman Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:39:03 +0000 http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html#comment-5591 Adding details to the previous comment: in 1985, Pinfield, Reece and Elesmore descended the gully. During 1985, Pinfield spent every weekend climbing at the top of the gully while working under Elesmore as instructors at the Outward Bound School, in Kinarut; Pinfield was the most fit of the team and led the climb out along the ridge where descending in the very bottom was no longer possible. Once out of the gully, the trek out is also very difficult. The Malaysian Government did participate in the rescue, but they did not go into the gully, they searched only the jungles below the gully; the Malaysians feared the gully and would not go in, neither did they have the equipment or people to do a rescue on the scale that was organized by the British land forces based in Hong Kong. The whole rescue is quite complex, and in Michael's words, "I was only part of the rescue that ended up locating the men, there were many people involved". In the end, even the SAS was called in to descend the gully, but the men were found shortly before by helicopter after daily passages over the area that Elesmore had indicated that they would have gotten stuck in. The men had been stuck in the gully for over 20 days at that point. Food was lowered in and two days later they were lifted out. It was a dangerous area to try and helicopter in, and to the merit of the Malaysian government they sent in the helicopters. I have tried to tie together the many details of this rescue with out making it lengthy, but again, the rescue was quite complex. Adding details to the previous comment:
in 1985, Pinfield, Reece and Elesmore descended the gully. During 1985, Pinfield spent every weekend climbing at the top of the gully while working under Elesmore as instructors at the Outward Bound School, in Kinarut; Pinfield was the most fit of the team and led the climb out along the ridge where descending in the very bottom was no longer possible. Once out of the gully, the trek out is also very difficult.
The Malaysian Government did participate in the rescue, but they did not go into the gully, they searched only the jungles below the gully; the Malaysians feared the gully and would not go in, neither did they have the equipment or people to do a rescue on the scale that was organized by the British land forces based in Hong Kong. The whole rescue is quite complex, and in Michael’s words, “I was only part of the rescue that ended up locating the men, there were many people involved”. In the end, even the SAS was called in to descend the gully, but the men were found shortly before by helicopter after daily passages over the area that Elesmore had indicated that they would have gotten stuck in. The men had been stuck in the gully for over 20 days at that point. Food was lowered in and two days later they were lifted out. It was a dangerous area to try and helicopter in, and to the merit of the Malaysian government they sent in the helicopters. I have tried to tie together the many details of this rescue with out making it lengthy, but again, the rescue was quite complex.

]]> By: C. Herman http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html/comment-page-1#comment-5590 C. Herman Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:23:49 +0000 http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html#comment-5590 The 1994 rescue of the climbing party was not conducted by the Malaysian government, it was carried out by the British Military and led by Commander Michael Elesmore of the Royal Navy. Without Commander Elesmore's prior knowledge of the gully the mission would have failed, they nearly gave up as it was; the search had gone on for many days and the military had proposed more than once to call it off. The reason for the demise of the one party was that they were not experienced climbers, neither was the leader; it was a desperate situation and a book entitled "SOS" was written by the leader of the expedition, Lt. Colonel Robert Neill giving full details of the expedition. A documentary was also filmed concerning the rescue and aired in England a few years after the incident. The 1994 rescue of the climbing party was not conducted by the Malaysian government, it was carried out by the British Military and led by Commander Michael Elesmore of the Royal Navy. Without Commander Elesmore’s prior knowledge of the gully the mission would have failed, they nearly gave up as it was; the search had gone on for many days and the military had proposed more than once to call it off.
The reason for the demise of the one party was that they were not experienced climbers, neither was the leader; it was a desperate situation and a book entitled “SOS” was written by the leader of the expedition, Lt. Colonel Robert Neill giving full details of the expedition.
A documentary was also filmed concerning the rescue and aired in England a few years after the incident.

]]> By: hans wijnand http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html/comment-page-1#comment-5020 hans wijnand Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:57:23 +0000 http://mount-kinabalu-borneo.com/blog/chronological-history-of-lows-gully-expedition.html#comment-5020 Hi, We did low's Gully in 2005 with a complete pull through expedition. It took us 3,5 days. Cheers, Hans Wijnand Netherlands Hi,

We did low’s Gully in 2005 with a complete pull through expedition. It took us 3,5 days.

Cheers,

Hans Wijnand
Netherlands

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