Kinabalu, Summit of Borneo The highest peak in south-east Asia, Kinabalu, was once a mountain of legend and fable. To Chinese adventurers it was the abode of a dragon, rumoured to guard a pearl by a lake at the very summit.
Today's visitors have yet to find a pearl.... or see a dragon ... but there are riches of another kind. A cool island rearing precipitously from the hot and humid lowlands,
Kinabalu is a treasure-house of plant and animal life.
Bizarre carnivorous pitcher plants, big enough to drown a rat, share its slopes with huge begonias and stately tree-ferns. Flamboyant rhododendrons shelter the elusive ferret badger as it hunts for giant worms, and there are nearly 1,500 kinds of orchid, many found nowhere else in the world. Narrator Barry Paine Film cameramen
HUGH MAYNARD , STEPHEN BOLWELL Film editor COLIN CRADOCK Written and produced by PELHAM ALDRICH-BLAKE
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol