{"id":1347,"date":"2007-08-21T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:47:27","slug":"1342-of-natural-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"[1342] Of a reward after a frightful climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was up on Bukit Tabur <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1309\">again<\/a> last Sunday, committing to a more challenging climb. At one time, I could feel fear overwhelming rationality. My feet were clearly shaking uncontrollably, for fear of slipping down the rocky trail. At one time, I was hanging by a rock with a crevasse approximately 30 meters down. I couldn&#8217;t move. I couldn&#8217;t think and I was trying to get a grip on myself, figuratively and literally. I am just glad I didn&#8217;t go there alone, as I had planned to. Without partners, I think I could have been in a dangerous situation, especially when it was raining, along the jagged trail on top of the ridge.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t felt such fear for a very long time. But I made it. Shaken but I made it nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that experience, pictures like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070919BukitTaburMosses.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;made it worth my while. The adrenaline felt good after all been said and done. The Monday after however was a very painful day. My muscle was twitching so hard that I could not concentrate at work.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering, this is a picture of a colony of mosses on top of Bukit Tabur. Bukit Tabur is part of the Klang Gates Ridge, possibly the longest quartz ridge in the world, according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwfmalaysia.org\/Features\/spaces\/KlangRidge.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> WWF Malaysia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was up on Bukit Tabur again last Sunday, committing to a more challenging climb. At one time, I could feel fear overwhelming rationality. My feet were clearly shaking uncontrollably, for fear of slipping down the rocky trail. At one time, I was hanging by a rock with a crevasse approximately 30 meters down. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[557,558],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-bukit-tabur","tag-hiking-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}