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TENGKU Mahkota of Pahang Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and his entourage “conquered” the summit of Mount Kinabalu at 8.45am Wednesday.

Assistant Park Manager of the Rescue and Crisis Unit, Operations and Enforcement Division of Sabah Parks, Julaimin Kamin said weather conditions during the climb were very good, with temperatures at about 9.0 degrees Celsius, and the ascent proceeded safely and smoothly.

Tengku Hassanal and the entourage spent almost an hour at the summit of Kinabalu before descending back to Panalaban at 9.30am.

Mount Kinabalu, which stands at 4,095.2 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in Malaysia and is located within the 754-square-kilometre Kinabalu Park area.

Kinabalu Park, gazetted in 1964, serves as a biodiversity conservation area and is the country’s first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) World Heritage Site.

Today, Kinabalu Park has also been recognised as a core area within the Kinabalu Unesco Global Geopark (KUGGp), covering an area of 4,750 square kilometres encompassing Kota Belud, Kota Marudu and parts of Ranau.