Freedom Climb For Independence Day, Mt. Lumot

This 2011 Freedom climb is an attempt to break a world record in the category: Largest Ascent on a Mountain (Multiple Locations), the current records holds the largest number of people climbing mountains at the same time took place during the "Big Event" on September 10, 2000 when 600 people simultaneously scaled 112 mountains in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

This Attempt is to break a current record and set a new record category: Freedom Climb 2011 - Largest Number of People Summiting Mountains in 24 hours (Multiple Locations). This is authorized to use the "Guiness World Records". The activity was held last June 11-12 for the celebration of Philippine Independence Day. More information at the official website

The Souvenir Shirt 

The girls decided to Climb for Mt. Lumot. Mt. Lumot was famous because of the crash site of Cebu Pacific's Crash Site.

The Famous Shrine

The shrine was built for the tribute of the Flight 387 and every year, people visited the shrine to give there prayers.

Shrine

We were so excited for the climb and the group prepared everything to have the most memorable climb ever. But unluckily, we didn't get to summit and visit the crash site since we got lost at the beginning. LOL Lesson Learn. Always look for trail signs. And the host should do trail blazing before the date of the climb for the newbies :D

Lumot (moss/algae) are scattered around. Mt. Lumot
The Mountain is a protected rain forest.

Going Back to the Shrine

And because we didn't get to the peak, we instead went to the nearby waterfall.

Its refreshing to have this sort of climbs and falls hopping as side trip.

Preparing to go back home. Tired but with big smiles :)

* Pictures courtesy of Eunz.. Thanks much