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Avioding Creepy Crawlies on Tioman Island

from The Alpinist - newswire
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Wright, Rivera, climbing, jungle, Rain, Horn, Tioman Island, Dragon's Horns, south tower, Malaysia

On a climbing trip that was partially planned on Facebook, Luis "Lucho" Rivera and Cedar Wright put up two new routes on the Dragon's Horns on Malaysia's Tioman Island: Tanoshi Buttress (5.10R/X, 270m) marks the first recorded ascent of the Horns' north tower, and Batu Naga (5.12R 300m) climbs "one of the proudest looking lines on the entire formation" up a prominent buttress on the south tower. Wright heard about the formation from Scotty Nelson, who did the first ascent of the south tower in 1999 and ...

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 57 views
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RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, Part One: The Unclimbed Horn

from Vertical Carnival Dispatches
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JUNGLE, Hey Vertical Carnivalites, day travel sequence Lucho, huge jungle spires, great climbing trip!, Tioman Island, Unclimbed Horn, Dragon's Horns, RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, RUMBLE

Hey Vertical Carnivalites! Cedar Here! As you may or may not not I was just in Malaysia for October and had great climbing trip! After a whirlwind three day travel sequence Lucho and I found ourselves on Tioman Island staring up at the mythical "Dragon's Horns." It was hard to believe that only one of the huge jungle spires had been climbed...until we started the approach...then it made more

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