Mount Murud

Mount Murud or Muru is a sandstone mountain positioned in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia At 2,424 m, it's miles the best mountain in Sarawak. The first try to climb Mount Murud became made in 1914 with the aid of John Coney Moulton, curator of Sarawak State Museum but failed due to meals shortage and killings in their native courses due to a Dayak Lun Bawang invasion. He made a 2nd try to climb the mountain in 1920 but failed once more. The first a hit ascent of Mount Murud changed into via a Swedish zoologist who changed into additionally a curator of Sarawak State Museum, Eric Mjoberg in October 1922.

He spent six days at the summit of the mountain and accrued diverse animal and plant species. His collections have been documented by diverse authors within the third volume of Sarawak Museum Journal in 1928. Following this, his footsteps were followed via different botanical collectors within the 1960s and Nineteen Nineties. During Indonesia-Malaysia war of words, a Gurkha publish became built on the summit. In the 1980s, a man from Ba'kelalan named Agung Bangau noticed a imaginative and prescient to construct a church there.

A church changed into later built at a plateau at the mountain and the primary prayer meeting changed into held in July 1985, attended via 600 people from the nearby villages of Ba'kelalan and Bario. Today, a village is constructed across the church completed with public services; receiving site visitors around the world. It is regarded as a sacred mountain where smoking and alcoholic drinks are prohibited.