The Challenges of Bali's Highest Mountain Mount Agung
Towering into the sky and dominating the island of Bali is mount agung, with an elevation of just over 3000m (3013m) it is a worthy challenge.
It remains to date the hardest climb I have ever undertaken. I climbed with a friend of mine Dave who is american and quite experienced and one of the few people I know fitter than me at least at the age I was back then.
We approached the climb through a monastery and it was the wrong season the trail was washed away at points and I found myself having to climb tree roots vertically. The gradient was incredible on average and it took a massive 6 hours to get up there and 4 down. Climbing down was a long and enjoyable affair on the way up it did make me cry a couple of times in a way I hadn't before (sheer exhaustion) and I consider myself quite a grown man, the mountain didn't beat me but on another day it might have. I would love the chance to one day scale the beast again.
Wikipedias info on the mountain : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Agung
Photo by Dendy Darma Satyazi
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