Routes in Kalimantan

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After almost 3 weeks the team pioneered the scrembling route via the north with a fairly dense vegetation cover, followed by a direct climb from the south side, the team finally completed the mission from the two sides of the Batu Daya cliff / Camel cliff today Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10.35 WIB. This cliff has a height of 685 meters from the base of the cliff. The team climbed the bolt to bolt stub as much as 15 pitches with a total length of about 800 meters, the average difficulty level or grade in rock climbing was from 5.10 to 5.12. Video.

Puruk Sandukui is incredibly difficult to get to – it takes several days from the nearest city of Palangkaraya. This may explain why there are so few images of it available online. Apparently, a team of students from Universitas Indonesia climbed it in August 2017! If Puruk Sandukui was better known, it would perhaps be one of the most celebrated natural landmarks in Southeast Asia. Known also as Bukit Telunjuk (‘Index Finger Hill’), this remote mountain features a 250-metre vertical stone cliff pinnacle as its peak. Apparently the closest village to Puruk Sandukui is Tumbang Masukih, approximately 10 kilometres away.