I received an email from our good friend, Cikgu Ismail few weeks back. He emailed me a photo of one of the porter, who climb Mount Kinabalu – day in, day out – to live. It’s really extraordinary, as the load of the packages that they bring are sometimes unimaginable.
Updated photo on 25 July 2007: CIkgu Ismail with one of the porters who showed him his well formed calf, lugging a 14kg cooking gas tank.
Below are the earlier photos:
The next 7 photos were send by Cikgu Ismail a month earlier. He even made a special Power Point file (which then burned on a cdrom) with all the photos inside.
The last 2 photos are really…
Mount Kinabalu Porter
So, you think you can do like them???
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ZOMFG!@!1111! Unbelievable!
Kan aku bilang…
Gaman to steady jer sampai Laban Rata…
These are the real heroes of Kinabalu I would say.
Yalah Kay…
If you see their calf muscle ah, you will be surprise man.
Wow. Orang bukit (hill people)… Eh… Orang gunung (mount people)… Actually all of KadazanDusun people are born warrior.
Btul bah!
I’m amazed by the two person carrying the pipes and water tank. That’s is definitely an amazing feat by those porters. The rest I’ve seen before while climbing Mt Kinabalu including those gas tanks… But heck pipes and water tank! That’s something I must link to my blog, with your permission of course!
Sure bro… No problem!
I do hope they are well paid for the job.. What a load!
I climbed Mount Kinabalu in 2002, when we saw these porters ’skipping’ up the mountain with a gas cylinder, we were already very amazed.. but this.. wow….
agree with Zara’s mama..i really hope they are well paid in carrying such a LOAD!!
** hats off and my RESPECT to them**
Amazing…
I don’t know how much they could earn a day carrying the heavy thing. I think I must go to Kundasang and interview them about their work and post the interview here…
holly crap!! their are supersapien with super strength, i bow down for them
Unbelievable isn’t it???
kesihan o…berat tu.. dulu saya mendaki gunung kinabalu, saya juga membawa barang-barang saya sendiri tapi tidaklah sebesar dan seberat yang mereka angkat tu. Kalau saya begitu , berangkali sudah tergolek bersama barang-barang tu ke bawah…ke jurang kali…
the last 2 photos are just amazing! that is just super strength!
Yes…
Strewth – those porters deserve the race prize money! I wonder how they feel about us paying large sums of money to travel to Sabah and take part in the race just for fun.
Do you mind if I put a couple of those porter photos on my blog of the Climbathon?
@ hanameizan:
Sure do. Just put a link back to this blog.
Cheers!
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memang kuat dan tagap angkol ni. saya pun pernah nampak durang angkat gas sama ubi kentang
uik hebat btl c gaman ni.btl2 sa respek sngt.punyalah kuat bleh angkt tangki yg begtu bert..uncle bleh tlng angkt sa jga ka?he2 just kddng =)
wah…nice picture……bangga sa jd org sabahan o bla tgok c gaman ne angkat tangki…yeah!!!sabah buleh bh….aramaiti!!!
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