Editing Mount Kinabalu (section)

== History ==
British colonial administrator [[Hugh Low]] made the first recorded ascent of Mount Kinabalu's summit plateau in March 1851 with local [[Dusun people|Dusun]] guide Lemaing of Kampung Kiau. Low did not scale the mountain's highest peak, however, considering it "inaccessible to any but winged animals".<ref>Hiung, C. S., R. Mandalam, and C. Chin. 2004. ''The Hugh Low Trail: The Quest for the Historical Trail to the Summit of Kinabalu''. The Sabah Society, Kota Kinabalu.</ref> In April and July 1858, Low was accompanied on two further ascents by [[Spenser St. John]], the British Consul in Brunei.<ref name=P&L /> The highest point of Mount Kinabalu was finally reached in 1888 by zoologist [[John Whitehead (explorer)|John Whitehead]].<ref name=P&L /> British botanist [[Lilian Gibbs]] became the first woman and the first botanist to summit Mount Kinabalu in February 1910.<ref name=P&L />

Botanist [[E. J. H. Corner]] led two important expeditions of the [[Royal Society of Great Britain]] to the mountain in 1961 and 1964.<ref name=P&L /> [[Kinabalu National Park]] was established in 1964. The park was designated a natural [[World Heritage Site]] in 2000.<ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1012 Kinabalu Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520123303/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1012 |date=20 May 2016 }}. UNESCO World Heritage Centre.</ref>

=== 2015 earthquake ===
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On 5 June 2015 at 07:15 [[Malaysian Standard Time|MST]], the area around Mount Kinabalu was damaged by [[2015 Sabah earthquake|an earthquake]]. Eighteen people, including hikers and mountain guides, were killed by the earthquake and a massive landslide that followed it. Ranau and many parts of Sabah [[West Coast Division|West Coast]] were affected and Donkey Ear's Peak was heavily damaged.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/06/05/Sabah-tremors-Donkey-Ear-peak/ |title=Sabah quake: Donkey's Ear Peak on Mount Kinabalu destroyed |author=Victoria Brown |newspaper=[[The Star (Malaysia)|The Star]] |date=5 June 2015 |access-date=7 June 2015 |archive-date=7 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607225432/http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/06/05/Sabah-tremors-Donkey-Ear-peak/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Six days before the earthquake, a group of ten western tourists (comprising six men and four women from Canada, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom) had stripped naked and urinated while on the mountain's summit.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11664331/British-woman-arrested-in-Malaysia-over-nude-photos-on-Mount-Kinabalu.html |title=British woman arrested in Malaysia over nude photos in Mount Kinabalu |author=Hannah Strange |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=10 June 2015 |access-date=11 June 2015 |archive-date=10 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610175504/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11664331/British-woman-arrested-in-Malaysia-over-nude-photos-on-Mount-Kinabalu.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Local people were deeply offended, and many who considered Kinabalu to be a [[sacred mountains|sacred place]] believed that the act had angered the mountain spirits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/06/05/Sabah-quake-angered-by-tourists/ |title=Sabah quake: Mount Kinabalu may be "angry" with nudists, say locals |author1=Michelle Tam |author2=Stephanie Lee |work=The Star |date=5 June 2015 |access-date=7 June 2015 |archive-date=7 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607155328/http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/06/05/Sabah-quake-angered-by-tourists/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Four of the group were convicted on charges of public indecency, and sentenced to three days in jail and a fine of 5,000 [[Malaysian Ringgit|ringgit]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-33105999 | title=Mount Kinabalu naked photo accused jailed | work=BBC News | date=12 June 2015 }}</ref>

Following the incident, some of the tourists and their families expressed their apologies to all involved parties, and the government of the United Kingdom began to review its travel advice for Malaysia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/mount-kinabalu-naked-prank-eleanor-hawkins |title=Mount Kinabalu 'naked prank': UK reviews advice for travellers to Malaysia |author1=Matthew Weaver |author2=Beh Lih Yi |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=12 June 2015 |archive-date=12 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612055929/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/11/mount-kinabalu-naked-prank-eleanor-hawkins |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3115996 |title=Sask. siblings apologize for posing naked on Malaysia mountain |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=16 June 2015 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=15 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915030213/https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3115996 |url-status=live }}</ref>