We started to hard ascend at 2AM in the morning with trail line and just headlamp. Not knowing what lies ahead, we stumble on big piles of rock but later when the sun rises up, we experienced the vastness of the boulders. A 3 to 4 hours hike to the top and waiting for the sunrise to go up and saw it's beauty like paradise.
Wiki:
Mount Apo is a flat-topped, 3,142.79 m (10,311.0 ft) (above sea level) high stratovolcano with three peaks. It is the highest peak of the Philippines. The southwest peak has the highest elevation and is topped by a 200 m (656 ft) wide crater that contains a small lake.[4]
The volcanic history of Mount Apo is poorly known but eruptions have produced andesitic-to-dacitic lava. A line of solfataras extend from the southeast flank at an elevation of 2,400 m (7,874 ft) to the summit. Mount Apo is not known to have had historical eruptions, and was incorrectly attributed to be the source volcano of the 1641 eruption of Mount Melibengoy, also in Mindanao.
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