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
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