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.
Pakistan’s Sajid Ali Sadpara successfully summits 8,091m high, the world’s 10th highest peak, Annapurna. He has achieved this feat without supplementary oxygen. Sajid is the son of Legend Ali Sadpara. Pakistan’s Shehroze Kashif and Naila Kiani are at C3 of Annapurna. pic.twitter.com/u7gjKIbnWk
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.
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, reportsDawn.
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.
Following the announcement by Nepal’s army that it had located the crash site of the missing plane, rescue workers have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site. There were 22 passengers on board.
According to a spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, the search for others is continuing.
A small passenger plane, operated by private airline Tara Air went missing in Nepal on Sunday during cloudy weather.
The airline said the plane was carrying four Indians, two Germans and 16 Nepalis, including three crew.
The government officials said that the plane took off in the morning for a 20-minute flight but lost contact with the control tower five minutes before landing.
The state-owned Nepal Television said villagers had seen an aircraft on fire at the foot of the Himalayan mountain Manapathi.
Referring to the fire site, Tara Air spokesperson told Reuters, “Ground search teams are proceeding towards that direction but it could be a fire by villagers or by cowherds. It could be anything.” The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) also said a team was headed to that area.
Nepal has a record of air accidents because of the huge mountains that country has. Its weather can change suddenly and airstrips typically located in mountainous areas are hard to reach.
Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif has made history by climbing the world’s third-highest peak Kanchenjunga in Nepal. Shehroze is the third youngest in the world and the first from Pakistan to climb “Kangchenjunga”.
Shehroze, said in a post on his official Twitter account, that he had climbed Kangchenjunga 8586m in Nepal at 3:05 pm PST. Youngest in the World! First-ever #Pakistani to raise Green Flag Ma Sha Allah.”
— Shehroze Kashif (broadboy) (@Shehrozekashif2) May 5, 2022
Shehroze has already made two other world records. He is the youngest mountaineer in the world as he has conquered three highest peaks of the world including Everest (8849m), K2 (8611m) and Kanchenjunga.
Ali Sadpara’s son Sajid Sadpara has announced that he will be summiting K2 once again to locate his father’s dead body and to make a documentary on his father, Geo News has reported.
“I want to go to K2 to know what happened to my father and John Snorri,” adding, “I am going to attempt to summit K2. My father went to K2 this year but did not return.”
He continued by saying, “A documentary on the life of Jon Snorri and Ali Sadpara is in the making. [I hope to] go to K2 to search [for the dead body] and make a documentary.”
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Sajid Ali Sadpara is returning back to K2 along with Elia Saikaly to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of John Snorri, Ali Sadpara, and Juan Pablo Mohr.
Shehroze Kashif on Tuesday became the youngest person to summit the world’s highest mountain above sea level, Mount Everest. As per details, 19-year-old Kashif climbed Mount Everest at 5:05 am on May 11 and hoisted the Pakistani flag on an 8,849-metre high mountain peak.
Following his feat, several political leaders including Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry lauded the young man and congratulated him on his achievement.
Shehroze Kashif, 19, became the youngest Pakistani mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest — 8,848.86 metres — on Tuesday.
Congratulations Sheroze for becoming our youngest flagbearer to summit #MountEverest. Brilliant stuff .. with top of the world checked off I wish you only go higher from here! pic.twitter.com/27ZpqxFEmR
شاباش شہروز کاشف! دنیا کی بلند ترین چوٹی ماؤنٹ ایورسٹ سر کرنے پر پوری قوم کو آپ پر فخر ہے۔ اس کم عمری میں یہ کارنامہ سرانجام دینا ہمت،جوش و ولولے کی عملی مثال ہے۔ آپ کی اس کامیابی پر حکومت پنجاب کی جانب سے آپکو نوجوانوں کے لئے خیر سگالی سفیر مقرر کیا جائے گا۔ #PakistanonEverestpic.twitter.com/R8dEohM0J3
— Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti (@RaiTaimoorB) May 11, 2021
Congratulations to Shehroze Kashif reaching the Summit of Mount Everest. WOW 19 years old Pakistani. You are the MAN. https://t.co/rxlFMjijQ7
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) May 11, 2021
Hailing from Lahore, Kashif is also the youngest Pakistani to have climbed Broad Peak (8,047m) at the age of 17, earning him the title “The Broad Boy”.
Kashif reportedly developed an interest in trekking at a young age after he went with his father on an outdoor trip. His first climb was at the age of 11 when he trekked to Makra Peak (3,885m) followed by Musa Ka Musalla (4,080m).
Meanwhile, Samina Baig was earlier the first Pakistani woman on Everest, was also the youngest Pakistani, at the age of 23, to reach the summit of the tallest 8,000er in the world.
Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery, to highlight the need to save the world’s tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site.
Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans, and plastic wrappers discarded by climbers and trekkers litter the 8,848.86 metre (29,032 feet) tall peak and the surrounding areas.
Tommy Gustafsson, project director and a co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre – a visitors’ information centre and waste up-cycling facility – said foreign and local artists will be engaged in creating artwork from waste materials and train locals to turn trash into treasures.
“We want to showcase how you can transform solid waste to precious pieces of art … and generate employment and income,” Gustafsson told Reuters. “We hope to change the people’s perceptions about the garbage and manage it.”
The Centre is located at an altitude of 3,780 metres at Syangboche on the main trail to Everest base camp, two days’ walk from Lukla, the gateway to the mountain.
It is due for “soft opening” to locals in the spring as the number of visitors could be limited this year due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions, Gustafsson said.
Products and artwork will be displayed to raise environmental awareness, or sold as souvenirs with the proceeds going to conservation of the region, he said.
Trash brought down from the mountain or collected from households and tea houses along the trail is handled and segregated by a local environmental group, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, but the task in a remote region that has no roads is a huge challenge.
Garbage is dumped or burned in open pits, causing air and water pollution as well as contamination of soil.
Phinjo Sherpa, of the Eco Himal group involved in the scheme, said under a “carry me back” initiative, each returning tourist and guide will be requested to take a bag containing one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of garbage back to Lukla airport, from where the trash will be airlifted to Kathmandu.
