Batu caves is the best!

How old are you? (not need to be exact, 20s, 30s, 40s, etc)
Have you been regularly active in sports?

just trying to help here, by finding out your physical condition, its okay, if you dont need it.

For your record, I have gone to Tahan 2 times, and KK 2 times as well, other rmountains, just lost count; should be around 20-30 ( thats including the same mountain over and over again)

good luck.

This post has been edited by VeeJay: Jun 23 2011, 12:37 PM

oops, i didnt realise the initial question was not from TS. Its very obvious why I ask the questions above.

Once I brought a early50 guy up to GBB (gunung bunga buah). he is very active insports, plays badminton, joggin, and joins marathon, but at GBB, less than 45 minutes into the climb, he turned blue-black! his heart was not pumping enough enough blood and lungs was ot expand enough to balance the oxygen.

Generall, for KK, the more fit you are the ease you find during climbing, and you could enjoy the sight while climbing, many are not fit or trained properly for its terrain, hence rushes to climb up and misses the beauty of the site.

Train your hamstring, calf and thighs. hamstring are the most important part when you are descending, most people get injured when they are coming down...

Correct, and especially if you are in the 20s, i dont see it a problem, but...but the pain you have to bare after the climb, is your choice

If you train well, then there is not much pain after the trip, else after the trip....will be something that you need to manage, and you would regret why you didnt train harder, but them, it wil be overwhelm by the success of the climb.

Thats based on my personal experience comparing 2 the climbs. First was the worse, but i feel, tahan was much challenging compared to KK. for KK, if you can climb stairs, then which is fine, and batu caves was our benchmark. If you are in Ipoh you could to the Buddhist temple there as well for training.

As for breathing, not everyone experience the same, some has difficulties most dont. If you do, then just slow down and take a deep breath, dont rest more than 5-10 min, coz you are going to tighten your muscles.

good sportsman!

me, climb via mersilau...4 hrs to laban rata, as we reached there we found it wasnt too difficult, thought of doing it one the same but would miss out sunrise....

but i would still recommend to train and dont take it easy if you dont have climbing experience, after climb soak yourself at hot spring ya...

actually you can opt not to carry big backpack, just a small sling bag with tracksuit (for early morning climbing, its kinda cold in the morning), some power bars and water is enough and of course cash. You can buy food at laban rata, and do your dry cleaning if needed there.

This post has been edited by VeeJay: Jun 23 2011, 11:15 PM