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6 years ago – April 2004, with my school based mountaineering group DBMS, we went to scale one of Philippines toughest – Mt Guiting Guiting located in Sibuyan Island, Romblon. I'm quite familiar to the place since the early 90’s and heard some myth about the mountain. As locals have mentioned, the 2,058 meter beauty derived its name from “gunting – gunting” due to its saw tooth peak.
From Metro Manila, we went on board Mary the Queen bound for Cantingas – main dock of Sibuyan Island. A 30 minute jeepney ride took us to the next town Magdiwang where we registered, had orientation at the DENR and visit Dr. Tansiongco’s residence.

After the pre-climb requirements have been completed, we headed to the jump-off point at Manong Lee’s place where we had all day to loosen up prior the 3-day knee breaking walk towards the summit. During the afternoon, we were graced by the majestic mountain with its full beauty – a picture perfect landscape!



At 0600H the next day, we started to trek towards our first camp site – the Mayo’s peak. During our climb, we only had Bulod Spring as our water source near camp 1.


The second day of hike towards the summit was the toughest one; a sun-exposed knife edged path.
We reached the summit at around 1300H and to our dismay no spectacular view on top except bonsai plants above the clouds. No one is allowed to stay over night at the summit thus we head back after taking lunch to Mayo’s peak.

This part was a hell as the rocks where we clung on was hotter. We have to move slow and extra careful; if you’ll miss your step, that’s it!

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