A self employed General Practitioner who lives with his lovely family in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. He dedicates his spare time serving people with precious information on climbing the Majestic Mountain of the Borneo, Mt Kinabalu. Reachable at drizad(at)gmail.comRM7 (~USD2.16) Insurance coverage for climbing Kinabalu
If you have been following me for the past few weeks, there was an issue about climbing insurance for climbers of Kinabalu. BS Tan sent me an email in regards to the issue, which I could not find the solution myself.
Anyway, she received a reply from Sabah Park, explaining about the insurance coverage, after she sent them an official complaint letter. She is kind enough to share with us the reply:
Dear Madam,
COMPLAINT LETTER: INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CLIMBING GUNUNG KINABALU
I refer to your email dated 10 June 2008 with regards to the above-
mentioned subject.
Insurance coverage for climbers are as follow:
INSURANCE (PER ACCIDENT)
-DEATH PER ACCIDENT ONLY RM50,000.00
-PERMANENT DISABLEMENT AS A RESULT OF AN
ACCIDENT RM50,000.00
-EXPENSES PER ACCIDENT ONLY RM5,000.00
-REPATRIATION OF REMAINS RM2,000.00
<–Omitted text for confidentiality–>
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
AK.MOHD.RODZAN PG.DAHLAN
SABAH PARKS
KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSIA
So now you know how much your compulsory RM7 insurance worth if anything happened to you. Happy climbing!
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Good day,
Is there any way to climb KK Mountain budgetly? Since, I’m not those foreign tourists spending USD.
Yeo
July 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Dear Drizad,
Thanks for the useful post.
We shall know how and where we can make the claims if anything incident happened to us during the climb.
Does the insurance cover the porter or bearer charges for carry the patients down from the mount ?
Thanks.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
@ Yeo:
Not sure how much “budget” that you want to save, but so far, no more budget package are provided by SSL. You have to take the package, as far as I know…
July 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
@ Leong:
Good question there… I assume that the porter fee is not included, as it is not stated in the email. Anybody could give better answer?
July 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
did you see the new rates posted at http://www.sabahparks.org.my/ on mountain guide and porter (with effective from 1 sep 2008)?
seem like a few fees was reduced… but i am not so sure..
July 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
@ Murphy:
Yeah… I need sometime to review their new rates. It seems that now, one mountain guide can only take 6 climbers maximum, compared to last time 8.