Where this comes from

Pulau Tioman has a genuinely world-class rock climbing area — the Dragon's Horns, the twin granite towers above Kampung Mukut — and yet no single guidebook has ever existed for it. Route information has been scattered across a paper logbook at Mukut, expedition reports, magazine articles, blog posts and a few films. This site exists to gather it into one place and keep it current.

Sources

The guidebook is a community compilation. It draws on:

• the climbers' logbook kept at Kampung Mukut, written by many parties;
• the "Tioman Climbing Route Book" compiled by Mike Söldner, which itself gathered typed topos, photographs of logbook pages, and published notes;
• expedition and first-ascent reports — the Cedar Wright / Lucho Rivera notes, David Kaszlikowski / Vertical Vision material, the Iranian "Mountains for Peace" team, Malaysian and Chinese teams, and visiting climbers;
• trip reports and films hosted on their authors' own sites, linked from the logbook.

We try to credit every author, first-ascent team and photographer. Where a source is uncertain or internally inconsistent, we say so on the page rather than paper over it.

Generated with the help of AI

Parts of this guidebook were transcribed and drafted by AI tools working from scans of handwritten pages. That process can introduce plausible-looking errors — a grade that was never given, a misread name, a pitch inferred from an ambiguous topo. If you spot one, please correct it.

Takedown

If you hold copyright in any text, topo or photograph used here and you want it credited differently or removed, email rizhaow@gmail.com and we will respond and act promptly.

Licence

Original contributions to this project — our transcriptions, structured data and any topo line-art we draw ourselves — are intended to be shared under a permissive climbing-community licence (proposed: CC BY-SA 4.0). This does not override the rights of third parties in material they created.

Contributing

Everything lives in one public repository: github.com/therizhao/tioman-climbing. Open a pull request, or email the address above.