30 July 2020, 2:50pm Professional climber Malaysian Eddie and KY made it to the top of The Elephant Wall a.k.a Bukit Tabur Extreme via southern vertical rock face made it a record of first free climb on the wall. The place is accessible to the top via hiking trail on the north face for hikers.

The climbs started from 9am at the base of elevation around 300m, by using approach of free climbing style with natural protection gears Piton,CAM and Slings, recorded 6 pitch total length over 100m from starting vertical rock face to bushes at last section. climbing detail as below

Base Elevation: 300m ++
Peak Elevation: 400m ++
Route name: Elephant Trunk
Start from base to top: 9am to 2:50pm

1st Pitch - first 7m rock has more vegetation, not good for protection, 1st piton protection placed 7m off the ground. 
length: 30m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 3 piton, 2 CAM
Anchor: 1 nut, 1 piton and 1 hanger bolt

2nd Pitch
length: 15m-20m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 1 piton, 4 CAM
Anchor: 2 piton

3rd Pitch - bad rocks start, climbed unprotected for over 10m, look for tree protection
length: 25m - 30m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 1 piton, 1 CAM, 1 sling on tree
Anchor: sling on 2 tree

4th Pitch - short traverse, from here onward started to have more bushes
length: 13m - 15m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 1 CAM, 1 sling on tree
Anchor: sling on tree

5th Pitch - zip zap
climb the rock face on the right, good cracks for 1st CAM, climb over the rock and start the bushes climbs
length: 28 - 35m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 1 CAM, 3 sling on tree
Anchor: sling on tree

6th Pitch - bushes all the way to top
length: 15m - 20m (estimated)
Protection gears used: 1 sling on tree
Anchor: sling on tree

Some climbers used to keep the climbing equipment back to storage rack after the climbs without cleaning it or clean randomly as some are skeptical about the cleaning agent would damaged the equipment especially soft gear like rope,harness and sling. Now this times in the pandemic COVID19, cleaning and disinfect the equipment right after every use would seem to be a good practice, especially those provide equipment rental.

we wrote in to 2 of international climbing equipment manufacturers Petzl and Black Diamond Equipment to find the answer of how to clean and disinfect the climbing equipment, received promptly reply. thumbs up and shout out to Petzl Malaysia - Allsports Safety Equipment for the informative reply! refer below links of recommendation from each manufacturer.

PETZL
BLACK DIAMOND EQUIPMENT