They are not the usual routes for climbing Mount Penanggungan. For Arief Yudo Kuntoro, though, the longer one treks the more comfortable one becomes. Arief's day job is as a bartender at a starred hotel in Surabaya. But for two years now he has helped University of Surabaya (Ubaya) researchers with data collection efforts at temple sites on the sacred mountain.

Arief is a member of the Penanggungan Archaeological Trail (PAT) expedition team, esta