Local guide Sukaibin Sumail (right) points the way through the cloud forest up a mountain ridge that has never been explored by biologists before. Above 2000 meters, Kinabalu is almost always shrouded in mist.
Under the roar of Langganan Waterfall, botanist Peter Hovenkamp studies a small fern with a magnifier.
As darkness sets in, spider specialist Peter Koomen processes the specimens he collected during the day, including a tarantula. In a 'killing jar', vapors of ethyl acetate will quickly stun and kill it, before it can be preserved in ethanol.
