Pakistan Mountain climbing Updates

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Pakistani mountaineer Abdul Joshi summits Mount Everest​

Mountaineers say that Joshi is skilled climber but he mainly focuses on unclimbed peaks and finding paths to summit​

By Faizan Lakhani
May 16, 2022

Pakistani mountaineer Abdul Joshi at Mount Everetst.

Abdul Joshi from Hunza made Pakistan proud on Monday as he successfully climbed the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8,848 metres) and raised the country's flag on top of the world.

Known as “pathfinder” among mountaineers due to his extraordinary skills, Joshi was part of the team led by Mingma G.

The expedition began on April 22 and they reached Camp 4 on May 15.

The thirty-eight-year-old Hunzaiite embarked the final summit from Camp 4 last night at around 9pm PKT and reached the top on Sunday near 5am PKT.

The summit was confirmed on Joshi’s Facebook page.

“Alhamdulliah! Another triumph for Pakistan! Abdul Joshi has summited Mount Everest - the Highest Mountain in the World. May Allah be praised for all His glory,” the post read.

He is the eighth Pakistani to successfully scale Mount Everest. Nazir Sabir, Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, Hassan Sadpara, Mirza Ali Baig, Samina Baig, Shehroze Kashif and Sirbaz Ali Khan have also summitted the highest peak in the world.

In April last year, Joshi, along with Sirbaz Khan, had summitted 8,091 metres Annapurna peak. His first peak was Manglik Sar at 6,050 metres. He caught everyone’s attention when he led a team for the first-ever successful summit of Passu Cones in Gilgit.

Mountaineers say that Joshi is one of the most skilled climbers in the country but he mainly focuses on unclimbed peaks and finding paths to the summit.

Joshi is likely to return to the base camp on May 18.

 

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Climber critically injured in mountain fall​

Correspondent
May 19, 2022

Ali Raza Sadpara.

GILGIT: Mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara got seriously injured when he fell from a mountain in Skardu during routine training.

According to Karar Haidari, secretary Alpine Club of Pakistan, Mr Sadpara, 55, was on a mountain for routine exercise on Tuesday when he slipped off a cliff and fell into a ditch.

He was rushed to Regional Headquarters Hospital, Skardu, for treatment.

Hospital authorities said spinal cord of Raza Sadpara got fractured and his ribs broken.

Dr Nasir Hussain, who operated upon Raza Sadpara, said the injuries were serious. “We have been trying to save his life for last 24 hours,” he added. “He remains paralyzed.”

Raza Sadpara was scheduled to attempt K2 ascent, the world’s second highest peak, this summer.

Mr Sadpara has the honor of climbing Pakistan’s 8,000-meter peaks 17 times. He scaled Broad Peak (8,047m) five times, Gasherbrum-II (8,035m) four times, Gasherbrum-I (8,068m) four times and Nanga Parbat (8,125m).

Besides, he also climbed Sia Kangri, Baltoro Kangri and Spantik four times.

He also coached renowned climber late Ali Sadpara, Hassan Sadpara and other mountaineers.
Climbers expressed sympathy with the injured climber and his family and prayed for his fast recovery.

Mountaineer Sirbaz Khan, the only Pakistani to have climbed 10 mountains above 8,000m, said Ali Raza Sadpara had spent his whole life in the service of Pakistan. He said Ali Raza had raised Pakistani flag on 8,000m summits more times than any other mountaineer.

Sirbaz said the injured climber had trained a whole generation of mountaineers, and appealed to the governments of Pakistan and Gilgit-Baltistan and the Pakistan Army to make sure Ali Raza was treated in the best possible way.
Sheroze Kashif, the youngest climber of world’s four highest peaks, said he was extremely saddened to hear about the news of Ali Raza Sadpara falling from a cliff.


He said Ali Raza was a noted mountaineer with multiple 8,000er summits under his belt, and was an inspiration for all mountaineers and nature lovers.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2022

 

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Renowned mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara (Apo Ali) passed away this morning. He was hospitalised after getting injured during a usual climbing training.
He started his career in 1986 and had the honour of climbing Pakistan’s 8,000-metre peaks 17 times.
May his soul rest in peace! Ameen!

 

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Sirbaz Khan, Shehroze Kashif summit Nepal's Makalu in yet another feat​

Jamil Nagri
May 28, 2022

A combination photo of Sirbaz Khan (L) and Shehroze Kashif (R). — Alpine Club of Pakistan/ Shehroze Kashif Facebook

Pakistani mountaineers Sirbaz Khan of Gilgit-Baltistan and Shehroze Kashif from Lahore summited Mount Makalu in Nepal, an eight-thousander that is the world's fifth-highest peak, on Saturday morning.

According to Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary Karrar Haidri, Kashif, 20. reached Makalu's top, which is at a height of 8,485 metres, at 6:56am (PST).

Following this feat, Kashif has become the world's youngest climber to have scaled five of the tallest mountains. The accomplishment also makes the 20-year-old the youngest Pakistani mountaineer who has scaled three eight-thousanders in 23 days.

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Shehroze Kashif's summits​

• Makra Peak (3,885m) at the age of 11
• Musa Ka Massalah (4,080m) at the age of 12
• Chembra Peak (4,600m) at the age of 12
• Minglik Sar Shimshal (6,050m) at the age of 13
• K2 Gondogoro La K2 Base Camp (5585m) at the age of 14
• Khurdopin Pass (5,890m) at the age of 15
• Broad Peak (8,047m) at the age of 17
• Khusar Gang-Alpine Style (6,050m) at the age of 18
• Mount Everest (8,849m) at the age of 19
• K2 (8,611m) at the age of 19
• Manaslu (8,163m) at the age of 19
• Kanchenjunga (8,586m) at the age of 20
• Lhotse (8,516m) at the age of 20
• Makalu (8,463m) at the age of 20

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Khan was behind Kashif by minutes in reaching Makalu's top and raised the Pakistani flag on the peak at 8am (local time), according to a Facebook post by the Alpine Club of Pakistan.

He is now the first Pakistani to have conquered 11 of the world's 14 eight-thousanders.

Khan aims to scale all of the world peaks having a height of over 8,000 metres.

Speaking of his latest climb, Khan's expedition organiser Saad Munawar said the mountaineer completed the ascent in his usual style, without using supplementary oxygen.

But, this success would not be celebrated with any extravagance, keeping in view the tragic demise of legendary mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara a day ago, Munawar added.

"We would also like to dedicate this summit to Apo Ali (Ali Raza). All these successes in recent times are possible only due to the hard work and sacrifices of our senior mountaineers. They lit up the small candle of hope when there was nothing but darkness and today that candle has spread light all around," he said.

 

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Pakistan Army, since yesterday, is coordinating a high risk rescue operation to evacuate stranded mountaineers Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali who are stuck at Nanga Parbat

Pakistan Army Aviation helicopters & ground search team comprising high altitude porters-rescuers,

 

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Alhamdulillah Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali have reached Camp 3 of Nanga Parbat on their own.
The duo survived the night at 7350m with their sheer willpower and resilience and resumed descent in the early morning as soon as weather opened.

 

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Pakistan Army Aviation and a ground search and rescue team have successfully rescued Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali from Nanga Parbat.. July 07, 2022..

 

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Around 100 embark for K2 summit, six scale Broad Peak​

Jamil Nagri
July 19, 2022

NEPALESE climbers hold puja at base camp before setting off.—Dawn

GILGIT: At least one hundred climbers from multiple expeditions on Monday began their push for the K2 summit, to take advantage of weather conditions that are likely to remain clear until July 22.

Meanwhile, six climbers managed to scale Broad Peak as several foreigners started their push to reach on top of the peak which is 8,051m high.

Sources at base camp told Dawn that climbers were taking advantage of the clear weather window

Before their departure to higher camps, a puja ceremony was held at the base camp by Nepalese climbers who prayed for their safety during the ascent and descent from the summit. “This is first summit push this season … team members have already fixed ropes from base camp to Camp 3 … [have] deposited oxygen, and stocked tents with food,” the sources added.

Sakhawat Hussain from Summit Karakoram told Dawn that 10 climbers from the Pioneer Adventure team, 23 climbers from the 8K Expeditions team, three climbers from the Dolma team, and four climbers from the Makalu Extreme team started the summit push on Monday. Climbers from Elite Expeditions, Imagine Nepal, Seven Summits Treks, and Adventure Pakistan also started their summit push.

Base camp sources told Dawn that 250 total climbers would be in action at K2 this summer, while 150 climbers had abandoned their attempts to push for the summit.

Mingma G, the expedition leader of Imagine Nepal team, said that K2 gives a limited weather window and they would depart for the K2 summit push on Monday. “None of our Sherpa and members went above Camp 2 and we were supposed to set up our Camp 3 before summit push but I am here with my best team and we don’t give up anything easily,” he said in a statement on social media.

“We have Rene Dai from Netherlands who is 65 years and trying [to scale] K2 for the fifth time and he alone is enough to inspire us towards our goal. I will have a picture with him on the summit,” Mingma G said.

Another Imagine Nepal team will depart for the Broad Peak push, said the climber as he hoped to see his team reach the summit on July 20.

According to a statement by 8K Expeditions, their team will be heading to Camp 2 and hopefully summit by July 21.

Sakhawat Hussain confirmed to Dawn that six climbers, including two from his company, summited the peak at 2pm on Monday. Luc Benoit from Canada and Louis from Bolivia were among the six climbers who reached the top. The names of the other four summiteers could not be known till the filing of this report.

Meanwhile, other expedition teams also started their efforts to summit Broad Peak and Gasherbrum-II. Pakistani climber Sajid Ali Sadpara, who started his Broad Peak summit, had also reached Camp 2 by Monday evening.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2022

 

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K2, The Deadly Beauty

 

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Nepali Sherpa sets climbing record on Pakistan mountain Gasherbrum II​

Reuters
July 21, 2022

Sanu Sherpa poses for a picture after mounting Pakistan’s Gasherbrum II. — Picture via Pioneer Adventure/Facebook

A 47-year-old Nepali sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world’s 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) for a second time, his agency said on Thursday.

Sanu Sherpa, from Sankhuwasabha district in east Nepal, reached the top of Pakistan’s Gasherbrum II, which at 8,035 metres is the 13th highest, on Thursday morning, his Pioneer Adventure hiking company said in Kathmandu.

“He is the only person in the world to scale each of the 14 highest mountains twice,” Nibesh Karki, the company’s executive director told Reuters.

No further details were available.

Eight of the 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, are in Nepal. The other six are in Pakistan and the Tibet region of China.

 

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High speed winds hamper climbers’ K-2 push​

Jamil Nagri
July 21, 2022

GILGIT: Sixteen International climbers summited Broad Peak (8,050m) on Wednesday while high speed winds hampered 170 mountaineers push to K2 (8611m), the second highest peak in the world.

The K-2 expedition including 13 Pakistani climbers divided into three groups to conquer the peak reached camp 2, camp 3 and camp 4.

The first group of the climbers are waiting at Camp 4, ready to move forward as soon as the wind stabilises, they expect to start their final push today (Thursday).

According to a statement issued by Imagine Nepal expedition team, the team members successfully stood on the summit of Broad Peak Wednesday morning, the summiteers including Ms Dawa Yangzum Sherpa (First Nepali Women to climb Broad Peak), Pemba Sherpa , Ngima Nuru Sherpa (summit without oxygen), Jit Bahadur Sherpa from Nepal, Ms Savannah Palma from the US, Mr Chrles Antonie from Canada.

While nine climbers from seven summit treks (SST) reached Broad Peak, the world’s 12th highest mountain.

According to a statement issued by the expedition total nine climbers from SST stood on the top of the peak, Marco Camandona, Pietro Picco, Raffaele Barbolini from Italy, Thomas Krapfl from Austria, Adriana Brownlee from UK, Dorota Lidia Samocko from Poland , Moses Fiamoncini from Brazil, Dawa Nurbu Sherpa and Gelje Sherpa from Nepal.

It said all Broad Peak summiteers on already crossed C3 on Wednesday and descending to Base camp.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Ali Nagri from Adventure Pakistan confirmed that Arnaud Pasquer from France summited Broad Peak on Wednesday.

According to Karar Haidri, secretary Alpine club of Pakistan, many climbers are on the way to Broad Peak summit, more summits may confirm today (Thursday).

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2022

 

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Eventually Sajid accomplished his Father dream..
Young climber Sajid Sadpara, Canadian Filmmaker Elia Saikaly, Fazal Ali (Shimshal) and Nepali Sherpa Pasang Kaji Sherpa reached the summit of K-2

 

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Pakistani female mountaineers create history, summit K2​

Samina Baig summits the mighty K2 along with her team members becoming the first ever Pakistani woman to achieve the feat​

By Faizan Lakhani
July 22, 2022

Pakistani female mountainers Naila Inayat (L) and Samina Baig (R). Pictures by reporter

KARACHI: Two Pakistani female mountaineers created history on Friday morning by reaching the top of the 2nd highest peak of the world, the 8,611-metre high K2.

Samina Baig summited the mighty K2 along with her team members and became the first ever Pakistani woman to scale the mountain. Following Samina’s summit, Naila Kiani reached the top, becoming the second.

No other Pakistani woman could achieve this feat before.

Several other climbers from various countries, including female climbers from Oman, Lebanon, Iran, and Taiwan summited the peak on Friday morning.

The summit push started late last night as soon as rope fixing teams completed their jobs and the first group reached atop K2 at around 3am in the night.

The team of Pakistan’s 31-year-old climber Samina Baig confirmed that she, along with other Pakistani mountaineers, summitted K2 at 7:42am PST on Friday.

“We are extremely proud to announce that Samina Baig with her strong Pakistani team, successfully summited the world's most fascinating and dangerous mountain known as the savage mountain — the world's second and Pakistan's tallest mountain K2 8,611meters this morning at 7:42am,” read a statement by Samina’s team at the ground.

“Grateful and blessed that K2 allowed her to stand atop this incredible mountain,” the statement added.

Samina Baig comes from a remote village of Gilgit valley Shimshal. In 2013, she became the first Pakistani woman to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest.
The other members to climb with Samina include Eid Muhammad, Bulbul Karim, Ahmed Baig, Rizwan Dad, Waqar Ali and Akber Hussain Sadpara.

Less than three hours after Samina’s feat, Pakistan’s Naila Kiani reached the top.
“Yes, Allhamdolillah,” Naila texted this correspondent, via a satellite communication device confirming her summit.

Pakistan’s Sohail Sakhi and Sirbaz Ali Khan also summited K2 along with Naila.

Climber Naila Kiani with Sirbaz Ali (R).
Target to summit all 14 8,000ers in 6 months

Over 50 climbers completed their K2 summits on Friday morning. This includes Norway’s Kristin Harila who reached the top of K2 between 2:30am and 4am and has since returned to a safe camp.

Harila is aiming to summit all 14 8000ers in six months. This was her 8th such summit in less than 3 months. If she succeeds, she will be the first woman in the world to summit all top peaks in one season.

Kristin Harila file photo

She was joined by USA’s Kristin A. Bennett, Norway’s Frank Loke and Canada’s Liliya Ianovskia. They were supported by a team of mountain guides that include Pakistan’s Fida Ali along with Nepal’s Pema Chhiring Sherpa, Dawa Ongju Sherpa, Pemba Tasi Sherpa, Dawa Dorchi Sherpa, Dawa Wongju Sherpa and Pemba Dorchee Sherpa.

Youngest female to summit K2 without oxygen​

In another development, 29-year-old Tseng Ko-Erh, who is also known as Grace Tseng, summited the mountain without using supplementary oxygen and has become the youngest female in the world to do so. She is now also the first Taiwanese ever to have stood atop K2.

Grace Teseng on Nanga Parbat earlier in July.

Her expedition organisers announced that their three-member team has just made it to the top of the world's second highest mountain. They reached the summit of Mount K2 at 7:35am Pakistani time.

Two other members of the team were Nima Gyalzen Sherpa and Ningma Dorje Tamang of Nepal.

Female climbers from Iran and Oman summit K2​

Iran’s Afsane Hesamifard and Oman’s Nadhira Alharthy became the first ever female climbers from their respective countries to summit the K2. They were part of the Seven Summits Treks team and reached the top just a few hours after the rope fixing. The team also included a Chinese female climber, He Jing, who summitted the mountain without supplementary oxygen.

The other members of the Seven Summits team included Poland’s Monika Witkowska, Russia’s Vladimir Kotlyar, and Nepal’s Mingtemba Sherpa, Pasang Sherpa, Fura Tshering Sherpa and Ngima Sherpa.

In another group to summit K2 on Friday morning, Nelly Attar — an Arab Lebanese woman — successfully scaled the K2. She was accompanied by America’s Terray Ellington Sylvester, Argentina’s Claudio Cocho Javier and Estonia’s Krisli Melesk.
Along with them, Pakistan’s Inayat Ali also climbed K2. Nepali Aang Phurba Sherpa, Siddhi Bahadur Tamang, Dorji Gyljen Sherpa, Kamdorji Sherpa, Lakhpa Wongchu Sherpa, Mingdongji Sherpa, Lakpa Bhote, Rinji Sherpa, Temba Sherpa and Lakpa Sherpa — who all were part of Madison Mountaineering — also summitted K2 early morning today.

Pakistani climber makes history​

Meanwhile, a Pakistani climber Ahmed Hussain made history when he summited G2 in just 14 hours from the base camp.

Climber Ahmed Hussain.

Summit dedicated to Ali Sadpara​

Another female climber, Andorra's Stefi Troguet, also reached the top of K2. She summited the second highest peak without supplementary oxygen. She sent a text via satellite communication to confirm her summit at 10:45am.

Mountaineer Stefi Troguet.

"I can't believe it. I'm on top of K2 without no O2. The hardest thing I've ever done." she said.

"This summit is for Sergi, Ali and Antonios," the climber said while dedicating the summit to the late Sergi Mingote, Ali Sadpara, and Antonio Atanas — the fallen heroes of the K2 winter expedition.

 

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Records smashed as over 100 leave a mark on K2 summit​

Jamil Nagri
July 23, 2022

Mountaineers take a selfie at one of the last camps before the K2 summit.

GILGIT: For the first time, more than 100 climbers summited the world’s second highest peak in a single day, with female mountaineers from Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Oman creating history by becoming the first-ever woman of their respective country to reach the top of 8,611-metre K2.

Pakistani climber Samina Baig, who had summited Mt. Everest in 2013, summited K2 along with her team, three hours before ‘mountaineer mom’ Naila Kiani, who had scaled Gasherbrum-II only last year, summited it. In all, 18 Pakistanis, including many from Gilgit-Baltistan, scaled the country’s highest peak on the same day.

Also, 29-year-old Grace Tseng has become the world’s youngest female climber to summit K2 without supplemental oxygen and the first Taiwanese ever to have stood on top of the Savage Mountain.

While 170 climbers from various continents had started their summit push from the base camp recently, more than 100 mountaineers from the US, Canada, the UK, Russia, China, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Andorra, Poland, South Africa, Japan, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Nepal and Malaysia started reaching the top of K2 from the early hours of Friday morning till afternoon.

Samina Baig creates history, again; 29-year-old makes it to summit without supplemental oxygen; women from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Oman break glass ceiling

The astonishing feat by several expedition teams was made possible as the forecast of stable weather at Karakoram Range Mountains encouraged five people from Nepal to fix ropes to the top of the peak, opening the route for other climbers on late Thursday evening.

Besides the two Pakistani women, Sirbaz Khan, Fida Ali, Eid Mohammad, Sohail Sakhi, Bulbul Karim, Ahmed Baig, Rizwan Dad, Waqar Ali, Shah Doulat, Shah Shimshali, Wajidullah Nagri, Akber Hussain Sadpara, Abid Hussain Sadpara, Zakir Sadpara, Ashraf Sadpara and Mr Inayat from different parts of Pakistan with various expedition teams summited the peak on Friday.

“We are extremely proud to announce that Samina Baig with her strong Pakistani team, successfully summit the world’s most fascinating and dangerous mountain known as Savage Mountain, the world’s second and Pakistan’s tallest mountain, this morning at 7:42am,” said Karakoram expedition through a press release.

Samina Baig who comes from the remote village Shimshal not only has the honour of being the first Pakistani woman to summit K2 and Mt Everest, but also holds the unique record of being the first Pakistani amongst men and women to climb seven summits in seven continents.

From Iran, Afsaneh Hesamifard is the first woman to summit K2. She has already summited Mt Everest and Manaslu. Similarly, Lebanese-Saudi fitness expert Nelly Attar set a new record by becoming the first-ever Arab woman to summit the world’s second highest peak. Also, Nadhira Alharthy is the first woman from Oman to have graced her country with the honour.

As part of her campaign to beat the time record of ascending all the 14 eight-thuosanders across the world within six months, a 36-year-old woman from Norway, Kristin Harila, also summited K2. For this purpose, she had started her attempt to climb five 8,000-metre high peaks in Pakistan, including K2 and Nanga Parbat, in two months.

Tseng Ko-Erh, aka Gr Stefi Trouget, a woman from Andorra, who summited K-2 without any supplemental oxygen, dedicated her summit to late Sergi Mingote, Ali Sadpara, Antonio Atanas — all fallen heroes of K2 Winter 2021 expedition.

Also, Ms Jing from China, who earlier climbed Mt. Everest and Lhotse in spring season without supplemental oxygen, summited K2 without additional oxygen.

French trekker rescued

Meanwhile, female French trekker, Nadia Sarah Baloul, who had been stranded at Concordia near K2 base camp since Wednesday, due to high altitude sickness was airlifted to Skardu by Pakistan Army helicopters on Friday.

The foreign trakker was awaiting rescue at Concordia near K2 base camp after she came down with high-altitude sickness. She is under treatment in Combined Military Hospital, Skardu, where her health condition is improving, said Apricot Tours managing director Wajahat Khan while speaking to Dawn.

He said the French trekker was part of a 13-member team of foreign trekkers who had started their base camp trek from Skardu about 10 days ago. He said Ms Sarah complained about breathing problems and nausea when she reached Concordia.

First summer push

This was the first K2 summer push of the season, as climbers are expected to summit the peak till July 25 before the next weather window on July 28 allows them to make an attempt, Mohammad Ali Nagri from Adventure Pakistan told Dawn.

He said over 100 climbers started their final summit push after the Nepalese team opened the route from camp to the top on Thursday night. The climbers started reaching the top of K2 at 2am on Friday and continued to do so till afternoon.

Karar Haidri from Alpine Club of Pakistan said K2 summiters descended to camp 4 or camp 3 after the summit. According to him, the fresh teams of climbers would start to move towards the summit on Saturday (today).

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2022

 

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Celebs and netizens congratulate ‘superwoman’ Samina Baig on becoming the first Pakistani woman to summit K2​

The mountaineer was followed shortly by Naila Kiani, who is the second Pakistani woman to climb the world’s second highest peak.

Photo: Samina Baig/Instagram and Nighat Dad/Twitter


Pakistani women are making history and are quite literally conquering mountains — Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to climb K2, the world’s second highest peak. She was followed shortly by mountaineer Naila Kiani and this achievement has the nation bursting with pride.

More than 100 climbers summited the 8,611-metre K2 in a single day, including female mountaineers from Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Baig, who summited Mt. Everest in 2013, summited K2 along with her team, three hours before ‘mountaineer mom’ Kiani, who scaled Gasherbrum-II only last year, summited it. In all, 18 Pakistanis, including many from Gilgit-Baltistan, scaled the country’s highest peak on the same day.
On Saturday, Kiani’s team said the climbers are on their way down and posted a BTS clip of the trek.

The news was met by cries of joy by people all over the country. Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy called it the “best news of the day”.

Actor Komal Rizvi called the climbers “empowered Pakistani women” while actor Adnan Malik pointed out that they were “making HERstory”.

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Lawyer and activist Nighat Dad, and singer Quratulain Balouch joined in with their congratulatory posts.

Netizens called Baig a “superwoman” and congratulated the climbers on bringing forth “such a proud moment for Pakistan”.

Kudos to Pakistan’s very own superwomen!