Elevation	2,410 m (7,907 ft); Prominence: 1,967 m
Province	Sarawak (Malaysia)
Ribu Category	Spesial
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Mount Murud is the highest peak in Sarawak, the highest peak in the Kelabit Highlands, and the fourth highest mountain in Malaysia. The first known ascent was in 1922 by Dr. Eric Mjoberg, a Swedish naturalist and then curator of the Sarawak Museum. There are two routes up the mountain although getting to either trailhead is quite difficult – usually requiring twin otter planes. If you can reach Bario by plane, you can head north-east to Pa Lungan village where a long trail starts at Long Repung shelter and leads to summit via Pa Remusu. Long Repung is on the main trail which connects Bario with Bakelalan – where the other route begins at Lepo Bunga shelter (at 1,000m).
For this second route, which can be accomplished without the need for a plane, there are logging tracks from the northern border town of Lawas to Bakelalan which are rough but fine for a 4WD and take approximately 5 hours to reach the shelter at Lepo Bunga. Members of Borneo Evangelical Church and others regularly ascend the mountain this way (especially during July) and have erected a wooden plank walkway for much of the trail. There is a large ‘Church camp’ at approximately 2,000m with many wooden shelters (supposedly enough accommodation for over a thousand people). Beyond this, is Kebun Batu (‘rock garden’), a flat area of sandstone rocks and probably the best place to set up camp. The summit lies no more than 3 hours further up. This hike altogether requires a minimum of 3 days, mainly because of the problems getting to and from the start.