ONG HOCK SIEW, Organiser,
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TO PROSPECTIVE CLIMBERS
MOUNT KINABALU CLIMB – Friday 9 April to Monday 12 April 2010
Dear Friends,
Have you ever wondered if you could somehow find it within your own personal ‘reserves’ to climb the highest mountain in South-East Asia – that great granite massif that stands in excess of 13,490 feet above sea level. When you stand there at the starting point, what will be the state of your preparation. Will you be ready????? No one else can help you at that stage. You have to make the climb by yourself!
GREAT BENEFITS AWAIT YOU
Your life will never be the same again when you find that you can achieve things that you hitherto thought unlikely and perhaps even impossible. You will ‘take’ on great health when you prepare for the climb and you will find great friendships on the climb. Great difficulties bring out the best in people. After you have made the climb, you will not want to go back to the times when you were unfit and frequently tired. There is so much good that will come out of the climb – get excited about it and get ready!
MOST OF YOU HAVE COMMITTED – YOU PAID THE NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT!
Most of you have paid the non-Refundable deposit so there is no turning back now. This is good. For a big group like this (53 climbers), all of you will need to follow instructions very clearly. Is this the biggest group I have taken? Not by a long way. The biggest was 112 climbers. So long as you diligently do what I list out, you will enjoy this climb and it will probably be one of the highlights of your life. If you don’t, you will definitely suffer and it will be no fun at all.
THE TRAINING REGIME – IT IS ALL ABOUT DISCIPLINE
You need to exercise discipline immediately. Those of you who say, “I still have much time; I will start next week” will probably end up doing very little training. The whole climb is about life itself – it is so hard for us to exercise discipline (it is much easier to merely talk about it). Try doing 6 km tomorrow on the Treadmill and you will know what I mean.
Please read below in the Appendix about the whole Training program. Follow it strictly or exceed it and you will have a great climb. Nothing I tell you now can describe the climb fully for those who have never been there before. There will be pain and there will be suffering!! But training can make all these “little” things much less relevant.
THE NEXT TRAINING BRIEF – SUNDAY 10 JANUARY (04-30 pm) - AT THE TAMUN TUN PARK
Please come for this next Training session. We will just do it for an hour and I will give another short briefing on the program. The mental preparation is just as important as the physical training. Dream about the climb and sleep well. Who knows? In your dream, you may find it in your reserves to dream about coming with me to climb Africa’s highest mountain (Mt Kilimanjaro) in the latter part of 2010. Why, if Kinabalu is possible, why not Kilimanjaro???
Interesting, isn’t it? God made us all to be Over-comers and there is not one reason in the world why we should limit ourselves to the small hills in our lives. Think about it, chew on it and sleep on it. Be the man or woman that you can be (no less)!!!
God bless you all as you move forward on this venture!
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