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Dennis S. Ella
Victorias City, Philippines
Web site: http://www.dennisella.webs.com
I am a Filipino who had my introduction to mountaineering at the age of 26 in 1993. Since then my passion for the mountain has never died down. I founded in 1996 a hometown mountaineering club with the purpose of developing a self-reliant mountaineer honed in the Philippine tropical mountains. In 1998, I began the practice of Non-guided Exploratory Climbing, a method of climbing summits without aid of local guide and without first-hand knowledge of the ascent route. Sharing my experiences and knowledge, I have contributed mountaineering articles for many years to Negros Weekly, a provincial paper.
My Peakware Content
Peaks
- Bilar Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Calaptan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Dalayapan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Dinamlagan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Gawahon Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Hamugnaw Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Lantawan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Makawili Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Manaphag (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara Daku Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara South Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara West Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Agdalusan (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Guinsayawan (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Mandalagan (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Talinis (Philippines, Asia)
- Sicaba Dacu Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Sicaba Diotay Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Tingtingon Daku Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Tingtingon Diotay Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Yagumyum Peak (Philippines, Asia)
Summit Logs
- Log #22304 (Bilar Peak)
- Log #22310 (Calaptan Peak)
- Log #22308 (Dalayapan Peak)
- Log #22302 (Dinamlagan Peak)
- Log #22372 (Dinamlagan Peak)
- Log #22309 (Gawahon Peak)
- Log #22314 (Hamugnaw Peak)
- Log #22296 (Madja-as Mountain)
- Log #22297 (Manaphag)
- Log #22306 (Marapara Peak)
- Log #22311 (Marapara South Peak)
- Log #22313 (Marapara West Peak)
- Log #22307 (Mount Agdalusan)
- Log #22298 (Mount Silay)
- Log #22301 (Mount Talinis)
- Log #22300 (Sicaba Dacu Peak)
- Log #22299 (Sicaba Diotay Peak)
- Log #22312 (Yagumyum Peak)
My Photos
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- Mount Silay
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
View of Mount Silay from Ubak Valley in the South (2000) - Manaphag
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Mount Manaphag is a forbidding presence in Pan de Azucar Is. This photo was taken on April 12, 2011 on the approach to Tambaliza. - Mount Talinis
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Nailig Lake is visible from the summit of Talinis. This photo was taken during the ascent of a 7-member climbing party on April 22, 2000. - Sicaba Diotay Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the West Side of Sicaba Diotay Peak. This photo was taken in September 1997 by the exploration party of Dennis Ella and Nathaniel Dichoso, one of the first few mountaineers to reach Ubak Valley. - Sicaba Dacu Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Bakiras Ridge connects to the Southwest Ridge of Sicaba Dacu Pk. This photo was taken on August 30, 1999 by the climbing party that scaled Sicaba Dacu through the Southwest Ridge. - Dinamlagan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Unlike most peaks of Mount Silay, Dinamlagan Pk is less wooded and affords views such as this. In this photo which was taken on October 3, 1998 Dinamlagan Pk looks down on 1310-meter Gawahon Pk that shares a ridge-line with Calaptan Pk further South. - Bilar Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The camp at the base of Bilar Peak (April 9, 1998) - Marapara Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
At the back of climbers in the camp ground in the old hospital in Patag, Marapara Peak is covered by fog. (July 19, 1998) - Mount Mandalagan
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The summit of Mount Mandalagan to the extreme right appears low from the high valley in Barangay Bunga, Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental. This photo was taken on August 2011 on a road trip. - Lantawan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the view of Lantawan Peak from the interior Southern side. This was taken from the logging road on the north side of Dalayapan Peak in March 2005. - Dalayapan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the massive rock a distance below the Dalayapan summit. This was taken during the descent of the March 2005 climbing party. - Marapara South Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The southern side of Marapara South Peak rises from the grass-carpeted field of Tinagong Dagat (2011). - Marapara West Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the wet and mossy forest in a shallow gully south of the summit of Marapara West. This was as far as my scouting party could reach while blazing a new trail from Tinagong Dagat to Patag in April 2011. - Marapara Daku Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Marapara Daku Peak is a commanding presence to the south from the summit of Marapara. The giant chasm over the northwestern slopes is Pulak-pulakan. This picture was taken in the morning on July 19,1998 a few minutes before the fog engulfed the summit. - Tingtingon Daku Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Tingtingon Daku Peak stands beside Tingtingon Diotay Peak. Both peaks are in the southeast end of the semi-circular ridge, the remnant of the eroded crater-rim of volcanic Mount Silay. This photo was taken from the summit of Dinamlagan Peak in 2003. - Gawahon Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The massive rock is the top of Twin Falls situated in the West side of Gawahon Peak. The sloping ridge at a distance is one of ridges connected to the West Summit Wall. - Hamugnaw Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The windswept summit of Hamugnaw is topped by a rock of fused minerals by origin. This photo was taken on August 30, 2000. - Calaptan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the dense forest in the Southwest side of Calaptan Peak (1997 photo). Together with its rugged slopes, the forest of the peak poses a challenge to navigation. - Mount Guinsayawan
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Mount Guinsayawan is a commanding presence to the north of Mount Talinis. This photo was taken from the summit of Mount Talinis in 2000. - Makawili Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Mawikili Peak looms over Sitio Campuestuhan - Mount Silay
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
View of Ubak Valley (the center of the Silay half-crater) from Naathagan Buttress. This photo was taken on August 28, 1999 during the Mount Silay climbing expedition of Dennis Ella, Mariebelle Porras and Pedro Palabrica. - Madja-as Mountain
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
These are stunted pines in Banderahan Dos, one of two ante-summits in the Alojipan Trail of Mount Madja-as. This photo was taken on August 27, 2000 during the final assault of the climbing party of Dennis Ella, Jeffrey Legaspi, Mariebelle Porras and Ernina Defino. Dimas Makiling, the guide, could attest that this was the third successful ascent through the Alojipan Trail. Other expeditions on the route never reached the true summit. - Manaphag
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
View from the South Face of Mount Manphag taken during the April 2001 ascent of a climbing party led by Dennis S. Ella. - Mount Talinis
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Kaipohan. This photo was taken during the traverse to Apolong during "Sunburn 2000". - Marapara West Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The slope to the left belongs to the North Ridge of Marapara West Peak while the slope to the right is the west side of Marapara Peak. The narrow valley in-between sustains Malisbog Creek. This photo was taken in December 2000. - Gawahon Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The man-made boating lagoon in the Gawahon Eco-Tourism Park is a wondrous sight early in the morning (photo taken on August 9, 1998). Mountaineering in Gawahon was a lonely calling in the mossy forest with nary a soul in sight until late in the 1990s before the resort was built and began attracting the crowds. - Marapara Daku Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
This is the Pandanon River that runs southward from the summit. The bank to the right belongs to the ridge that is a possible ascent-route to the summit. This photo was taken on April 5, 2012 from the Pandanon Bridge, 35 kms from Bacolod City. - Dalayapan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The southern side of the Dalayapan ridge rises from Sicaba River before the fork of Sicaba-Wala and Sicaba-Tuo. This photo was taken in 2009 from the Dinamlagan Peak side of the river. - Dinamlagan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The boulder-strewn Sicaba-Tuo River in the northwest side of Dinamlagan Peak caused so much delay to the 2009 expedition which failed to reach the summit. - Dalayapan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The 2005 expedition utilized the logging road in the southern side of Dalayapan Peak before circling to the northern side. - Gawahon Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Gawahon Peak (pinnacle to the right) caps the northern end of the N-S ridge that extends from Calaptan Peak (pinnacle to the left hidden by fog). This photo was taken from the back-country eastern side, specifically from the summit of Sicaba Diotay Peak, on September 15, 2000. - Dinamlagan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The 2009 party attempting Dinamlagan Pk through the Northwest comes across this "bugta" (makeshift forest shelter) near the logging road in Sicaba-Tuo Creek Camp - Marapara South Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The view from the summit is marred by the fog and vegetation. This is the most I could get of the the view to the south towards Marapara-Daku Peak during our 2007 ascent of Marapara South Peak. - Calaptan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
A major peak of Mount Silay, Calaptan Pk commands a presence to the left, across the Tingtingon Peaks to the right. - Marapara Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
The West Face of Marapara Peak plunges down the bottom of Malisbog Creek (December 2000) - Dinamlagan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Sicaba-Tuo Creek, a tributary of Sicaba River, was utilized by a 2009 climbing party attempting a Northwest route up Dinamlagan Pk. - Dinamlagan Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
A member of the 2-man climbing team that succeeded in the ascent of Dinamlagan Pk through the South Ridge in 2003. The team discovered the absence of a trail beginning at a point around 500 feet below the summit. - Marapara West Peak
Photo by Dennis S. Ella
Sulfatara-Diotay, situated along the Malisbog river-valley, in December 2000. A climber and two guides used this as a camp during the ascent of Marapara West Peak.
My Climbs
Peaks I've Climbed
- Bilar Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Calaptan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Dalayapan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Dinamlagan Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Gawahon Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Hamugnaw Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Madja-as Mountain (Philippines, Philippines, Asia)
- Manaphag (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara South Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Marapara West Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Agdalusan (Philippines, Asia)
- Mount Talinis (Philippines, Asia)
- Sicaba Dacu Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Sicaba Diotay Peak (Philippines, Asia)
- Yagumyum Peak (Philippines, Asia)
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