Tag: Ali Sadpara

  • Real Sinf-e-Ahan Naila Kiani summits Mount Lhotse in Nepal

    Real Sinf-e-Ahan Naila Kiani summits Mount Lhotse in Nepal

    Pakistani female mountaineer Naila Kiani has summited Mount Lhotse just two days after scaling Mount Everest.

    On Tuesday morning, Kiani became the first Pakistani woman to summit six 8000-meter mountains after she successfully scaled Mount Lhotse in Nepal.

    Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world at 8,516 metres, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga.

    Apart from Lhotse, the other five 8000 metre mountains Kiani has summited include Everest, K2, Annapurna, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II.
    Kiani’s expedition organisers in Nepal confirmed that she reached on top of Lhotse at 8:13 am local time today morning.

    According to Karrar Haidri of Alpine Club of Pakistan, Kiani is the first Pakistani woman to climb Lhotse and the country’s fastest woman to ascend six peaks higher than 8,000 metres.

    There have been several Pakistani mountaineers who have successfully summited Mount Lhotse and Mount Everest. Nazir Sabir, the first Pakistani to climb Mount Everest, also summited Mount Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world.

    He achieved this feat in 2001. Ashraf Aman has also summited both Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse.

    Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, has also successfully summited Mount Lhotse. She accomplished the feat in 2014, becoming the first Pakistani woman to summit both peaks.

    Mirza Ali is a Pakistani mountaineer who has climbed both Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse. He achieved this double summit in 2019, becoming the first Pakistani to accomplish this feat within 24 hours.

    These are some of the Pakistani mountaineers who have conquered both Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse, two of the most challenging and renowned peaks in the world.

    Their achievements reflect the determination and skill of Pakistani climbers in tackling the world’s highest mountains.

  • Real Sinf-e-Ahan; Naila Kiani becomes first Pakistani woman to summit world’s 10th highest peak

    Real Sinf-e-Ahan; Naila Kiani becomes first Pakistani woman to summit world’s 10th highest peak

    Naila Kiani has become the first Pakistani woman to summit Nepal’s Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest peak. The mountain climber made the record on Monday morning.

    Kiani was also the first Pakistani woman to summit Broad Peak, which is the 12th highest mountain in the world. She has also climbed several other peaks, including Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, and the mighty K2.

    Naila summited Annapurna alongside Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif.

    Arjun Vajpayee of India was part of the six-member team of mountaineers, besides the two Pakistanis.

    Naila Kiani is also an advocate for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan. She has spoken out about the importance of women pursuing their dreams and breaking down gender barriers in traditionally male-dominated fields like mountaineering.

    Her achievements have inspired many women in Pakistan to pursue their own passions and to challenge societal expectations. She will attempt to summit Mount Everest and Lhotse this season.

    Naila Kiani is the first Pakistani woman to scale four peaks above 8,000 meters.

  • Son of late Ali Sadpara climbs world’s 10th highest peak without bottled oxygen

    Son of late Ali Sadpara climbs world’s 10th highest peak without bottled oxygen

    Sajid Ali Sadpara, the son of famous mountaineer late Muhammad Ali Sadpara, has climbed the world’s 10th highest peak without supplemental oxygen. As per sports journalist Faizan Lakhani, Sajid Sadpara scaled Annapurna (8,091 meters) peak in Nepal on April 15.

    Sajid Ali Sadpara has twice climbed K2 — the world’s second-highest mountain — in Pakistan, once without supplemental oxygen. In 2022, he summited the Manaslu peak without supplemental oxygen, becoming the first Pakistani to complete the feat.

    In February 2021, Sajid Sadpara survived an expedition in which his famous father perished along with Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr while attempting to summit K2 during the winter season.

  • Ali Sadpara’s son all set to summit world-highest peaks in Nepal without oxygen

    Ali Sadpara’s son all set to summit world-highest peaks in Nepal without oxygen

    Sajid Ali Sadpara, the son of famous mountaineer late Muhammad Ali Sadpara, has reached Nepal to summit some of the world’s highest mountains without supplemental oxygen.

    He is going to climb Kangchenjunga (8,586 m), Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) and Makalu (8,481m) peaks, reports Dawn.

    They are the world’s third, seventh, and fifth-highest mountains, respectively. The climber said his mission will be completed in three months.

    In an Instagram post Sadpara put up on Saturday, he shared that he is all set to summit Mountain Annapurna, 8091m high, considered to be among the deadliest of high peaks due to avalanche prone slopes and shifting ice.

    At home, Sajid Ali Sadpara has twice climbed K2 — the world’s second-highest mountain — one time without supplemental oxygen. In 2022, he summited the Manaslu peak without supplemental oxygen, becoming the first Pakistani to achieve the feat.

    Earlier this year, he announced the “K-2 Clean Up Campaign”, a voluntary cleanliness campaign that will start in June this year.

    In February 2021, Sajid Sadpara survived an expedition in which his famous father, Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr went missing while attempting to summit K2 during the winter season.

  • Sajid Sadpara summits K2 again, buries father Ali Sadpara on K2

    Sajid Sadpara summits K2 again, buries father Ali Sadpara on K2

    Sajid Ali Sadpara reached the summit of K2 — for the second time — along with his teammates Canadian filmmaker Elia Saikaly and Nepal’s Pasang Kaji Sherpa on Wednesday. Wednesday proved to be an exceptionally good day as a total of 24 climbers were successful in reaching the summit of K2.

    The K2 expedition was planned by Sajid and his teammates to find the bodies of his father Muhammad Ali Sadpara, Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr. The three climbers were last seen on February 5 near the Bottleneck on K2 as they attempted to reach the summit.

    Sajid Sadpara, who was accompanying the three on Feb 5, had to abandon his summit bid after his oxygen regulator malfunctioned and he returned to camp 3. Bad weather thwarted multiple attempts to search for the missing climbers. The climbers were presumed dead on February 18.

    After successfully finding the dead bodies of the three, Ali Sadpara has been buried on the world’s second highest peak K2.

    This was confirmed by Ali Sadpara’s son Sajid on Twitter.

    Sajid said that he has temporarily buried his father’s body in the snow at K2 Camp 4 so that the body can be protected from avalanches and other mishaps.

    He mentioned that a climber from Argentina helped him a lot in this important mission. He brought the body of Ali Sadpara from the height of bottleneck to Camp 4 with him.

    Ali Sadpara’s son said that after burying his father’s body, he hoisted the Pakistani flag on it to mark his grave and recited the Holy Quran on behalf of the whole nation.

    Cheif Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar also paid tribute to Sajid Sadpara in a tweet, saying: “The whole Nation is proud of @sajid_sadpara for retrieving the body of National Hero Ali Sadpara after a thorough search from the heights of K-2

    He further added: “On behalf of people of Punjab I pay my respects and honour to late Ali Sadpara and family for their services to the Pakistani Nation!

  • Ali Sadpara’s dead body found by son after 158 days

    Ali Sadpara’s dead body found by son after 158 days

    Ali Sadpara’s dead body has been found above Camp 4 on K2’s Abruzzi Spur route, Alpine Adventure Guides reported from Base Camp.

    As per Alpine Adventure Guides’ official Twitter page, the body was found roughly 300m above Camp 4 by the Madison Mountaineering Sherpa team. It has a black and yellow suit, a report stated. Both John Snorri and Juan Pablo Mohr were wearing those colours when they were last seen, heading up from Camp 3 towards K2’s summit on February 5.

    Garrett Madison and his clients are following their sherpa team-up. They were expected to reach Camp 3 today. In a previous interview with a portal, Madison said that if his team happened to find any trace of the missing climbers, he would immediately inform the liaison officer at Base Camp and wait for further instructions.

    Muhammad Ali Sadpara went missing on February 5. His son, Sajid Sadpara, is currently on the mountain, hoping to find his remains. Climbing with Elia Saikaly and Pasang Kaji, Sajid should be on his way to Camp four today. Before departing from Base Camp, the young Pakistani climber shared some thoughts on Twitter, saying: “We have started our climb again. Will resume search, both physical and by drones; above 8000m and beyond bottleneck. I am hopeful of finding a trace and answers.”

    Unconfirmed reports indicate that the dead body of missing Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara has been found on K2.

    Later, a sports journalist, Angela Benavides confirmed that two bodies were found. “One is of Ali, the second may be Snorri’s.”

  • PIA announces ‘Sadpara Air Safari’ to boost local tourism

    Pakistan International Airlines is all set to launch the ‘Sadpara Ali Safari’ service to boost local tourism in the country. The service is named after late mountaineer Ali Sadpara. The service is expected to start from June 12.

    As per the details, after the launch of the service, people will be able to book a flight from Islamabad and fly over to K2, Deosai, Nanga Parbat, and other mountains before landing in Skardu. During the flight the captain will enlighten the passengers with live commentary.

    The one way Air Safari service will cost Rs25,000, Express Tribune has reported.

    The return flight will operate as a normal flight carrying other passengers to provide travelling flexibility to their clients.

    Ali Sadpara lost his life earlier this year in February, along with two international mountaineers during their quest to conquer K2 in winter.

  • Ali Sadpara is no more, confirms son

    Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara, who went missing on February 5 while attempting to summit K2, is no more with us, his family confirmed on Thursday.

    Sadpara had gone missing along with two other foreign climbers, and it is not yet confirm whether the mountaineers did summit the mighty K2.

    Addressing a press conference, Sadpara’s son Sajid Sadpara said, “K2 has embraced my father forever. May God give my family the strength to deal with this loss.”

    “I want to assure the mountaineering community across the world that my father’s mission will continue.”

    He also thanked Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and the pilots of Askari Aviation for a thorough search and rescue operation for his father despite harsh weather conditions.

    READ: Video of Ali Sadpara singing ‘Tum Chalay Ao’ goes viral as rescue operation enters third day

    Sajid Sadpara shared the news on Twitter as well.  “I will keep my father’s mission alive and fulfil his dream,” he wrote. 

    https://twitter.com/Saajid_Sadpara/status/1362350453758058502?s=20

    The climbers were last seen around the mountain’s most unsafe path called the Bottleneck.

    President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi took to Twitter to express his condolences to Ali Sadpara’s family.

  • Video of Ali Sadpara singing ‘Tum Chalay Ao’ goes viral as rescue operation enters third day

    Video of Ali Sadpara singing ‘Tum Chalay Ao’ goes viral as rescue operation enters third day

    An old video of Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara singing Tum Chalay Ao has gone viral on social media. In the video, the brave mountaineer can be seen singing, clapping and dancing to the song with his friends in a camp.

    Sadpara, who had embarked on a mission to summit K2 in the winters with Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s JP Mohr went missing on Friday.

    Sadpara’s son Sajid Ali Sadpara on Sunday told the media that the chances of the mountaineers’ survival are very low. Efforts to locate the missing climbers are ongoing since Saturday but have been unsuccessful due to poor weather conditions.

    Talking to the reporters in Skardu, Sajid had said: “Rescue operations now only make sense if they are carried out to bring back the bodies. Otherwise, the chances for anyone to survive after being missing for two to three days at 8,000 meters are very bleak.”

    https://twitter.com/SajidAliSadpara/status/1358421202977497088?s=20

    However, Sajid is convinced that his father summited the peak.

    “My father has the experience of summiting all the mountains,” wrote Sajid on Twitter. “I saw him near the K2 mountain last time. I am sure he has summited K2.”

    “On the way back, there were gusty winds that might have caused a problem,” he added.

    https://twitter.com/SajidAliSadpara/status/1358667085585539072?s=20

    Later, Sajid also shared a picture of himself before leaving for a rescue mission on the third day.

    https://twitter.com/SajidAliSadpara/status/1358643110004355078?s=20

    Gilgit Baltistan’s Home Secretary Muhammad Ali Randhawa also shared pictures taken of the K2 on the Pakistan Army Aviation Helicopters during the search operation.

    Meanwhile, Alpine Club of Pakistan secretary Karrar Haider told AFP that “a second helicopters’ search found no sign of missing climbers”.

    He added that the helicopters’ crew traced the route up to a height of 7,000 metres (23,000 feet).

    Chhang Dawa Sherpa, their expedition manager, said he was part of one search team trying to trace the mountaineers.

    “The search team went through the Abruzzi and other routes, we had less weather visibility above C 4 (camp 4), unfortunately, no trace at all,” Sherpa said in a statement.

    Bad weather today (Monday) forced Pakistan Army helicopters to temporarily halt their search for three mountaineers. The officials are uncertain about when weather conditions would improve enough for it to resume again.

    Conditions on K2 are harsh: winds can blow at more than 200 kilometres per hour (125 miles per hour) and temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit). Unlike Mount Everest, which has been scaled by thousands of climbers young and old, K2 is much less travelled due to its tough conditions.

    Earlier on Saturday Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis, Zulfi Bukhari had said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa have expressed their concern over the missing climbers and are personally monitoring all developments.

  • Ali Sadpara becomes first Pakistani to summit Mont Blanc

    Ali Sadpara becomes first Pakistani to summit Mont Blanc

    Pakistani mountaineer Mohammad Ali Sadpara climbed the highest mountain in the Alps and deadliest in the world, Mont Blanc with two other hikers. 

    Mont Blanc rises 4,808 meters above sea level and is considered one of the deadliest peaks in the world. Muhammad Ali Sadpara has also climbed four of Pakistan’s five mountains above 8,000 meters high.

    Sadpara has climbed all five, 8,000-metre high peaks in
    Pakistan, including K2 (8,611m), Gasherbrum I (8,080m), Gasherbrum II (8,034m),
    Nanga Parbat (8,126m) and Broad Peak (8,051m).

    He is the first Pakistani to have climbed Nanga Parbat in
    the winter. He also climbed the 8,516-metre Lhotse peak and 8,485-metre Makalu
    peak in Nepal.