Snow Mountain

Over the weekend, I conquered Snow Mountain 雪山 - Taiwan's 2nd highest peak.

DAY I
Wuling Farm 武陵農場 is where we will start our Snow Mt climb. We arrived the day before & spent the night at the campsite

At an elevation of almost 2000m, Wuling Farm was originally a fruit growing area for retired soldiers (hence the name). Now it's part of the Sheipa National Park 雪霸國家公園.

I got a tent all to myself!

Think the they were inspired by the Kampong.

DAY II
Its 6AM...


The climb begins... & yes that's an umbrella.

A lotus print one no less. 7th month u know...

2 hrs later, we arrived at Snow Mt's famous slope


The climb wasn't so bad. In fact, I was more amused by the English.

Rained for last 30mins of our climb.

But mother nature made it up to us after we arrived at base camp...



DAY III
Since it's summer, 太陽公公 aka the sun raises at 430am
To be on time to catch the sunrise at the summit, we had to wake up at 12AM

We reached the summit in record time - 3hrs instead of the usual 4


And had plenty of time to catch our breath before sunrise...


The view is absolutely stunning.








The descend begins...

Or so we thought... we made it to the summit so fast, our guide decided that we were fit enough to conquer another peak - 北稜角峰：North something something Peak

We had to climb up the gravel to get to the summit
The rocks were damn loose & all of us kept slipping down.


I was scared shitless.
Am amazed that I managed to take photo


But we made it! Summit#2: 北稜角峰!!

And we descended safely, for the 2nd time.

Now back in UCL. Aching like mad.

Dreaming about my next destination haha