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#54 In Borneo, Desperately Seeking Something

June 12, 2015

Desperately seeking something:
In the Instagrammed yoga poses of a British backpacker, shot against South East Asian sunsets that are ‘pretty damn amazing’, says she.

Desperately seeking something:
In the decision to strip off and goof around near the snow-dusted summit of a sacred mountain; seven o’clock on a sun-kissed, kiss-my-arse morning, mooning and communing at the same time.

Desperately seeking something:
In the park ranger’s complaint that he felt ‘offended as a Dasun’. Defending tribal spirits against ‘disrespect’ he finds his spirit level, having heard about the incident from the mountain park’s manager.

Desperately seeking something:
In the pubescent girl wearing black and wishing her girlishness away. For the film of theschool trip she waves the briefest ‘bye’ to her parents, just short of dismissive.

Peony Wee (12) died in the recent earthquake on Mount Kinabalu. Her body was flown home to Singapore for cremation.The spirits of Borneo’s highest mountain were said to have been angered by a group of 10 Western tourists who took their clothes off nearthe summit. Following a complaint made to Malaysian police by park ranger Daikin Anam (32), four of the trekkers pleaded guilty to committing an obscene act in a public place. British consular officials arranged for aeronautical engineering graduate Eleanor Hawkins (23) to fly home to Draycott in Derbyshire having served her three-day jail sentence.

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