Mount Mulu

The Gunung Mulu is with 2377 m the second highest mountain in the state of Sarawak on Borneo in Malaysia.

To this mountain of sandstone Gunung Mulu National Park is the with its limestone karst landscape known through the huge cave system. It is one of the largest in the world. Clearwater Cave, for example, is a huge, about 108 km-long tunnel system with an underground river and corridors, ranging up to 355 m in depth. The park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 and is, with its nearly 540 km ², the largest national park in Sarawak.

The British naturalist Spenser St. John tried in 1857 for the first time the ascent of the mountain, but repeatedly failed. Only in the 1920s found the locals Tama Nilong a path across the southwest. 1932 reached under his leadership a group of British researchers at the University of Oxford to the summit. 1935, a research station was set up.

Today, the ascent of the mountain is a popular multi-day trekking tour, which is still the route of the first ascent is used.

For the locals, the Mulu was a seat of mountain spirits.