Tag: mountaineers

  • Pakistani woman mountaineer summits world’s 11th highest mountain

    Pakistani woman mountaineer summits world’s 11th highest mountain

    Pakistan’s mountaineer Naila Kiani has successfully summited the world’s 11th highest mountain, Gasherbrum 1 (G1) today. With her recent achievement, Naila has become the first Pakistani woman mountaineer to scale three peaks of over 8,000 meters.

    She summited G1 with five other mountaineers including Sirbaz Khan, Sohail Sakhi, Sajid Sadpara, Shehroze Kashif and Imtiaz Sadpara.

    Naila is a banker by profession, she is a mother of two and is also a trained boxer, a mountaineer, and an adventure enthusiast. 

    Read more – Samina Baig creates history, becomes first Pakistani woman to summit K2

    Naila in July summited K2 and became the second Pakistani woman to scale the K2 and the first Pakistani woman to do it in her first attempt.

    Samina Baig, a mountaineer from Gilgit-Shimshal Baltistan, was the first Pakistani woman to reach the top of K2 in July this year.

  • Pak army rescues mountaineers Shehroze and Fazal

    Pak army rescues mountaineers Shehroze and Fazal

    The Pakistan Army rescued two mountaineers who were stranded at Nanga Parbat. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), army aviation helicopters and pilots took in the rescue mission on Thursday.

    Both Shehroze Kashif and Fazal Ali are fit and sound, the ISPR said.

    Shehroze Kashif hails from Lahore and Fazal Ali from Shimshal of Gilgit-Baltistan’s Hunza district.

    The ninth-highest peak in the world, Nanga Parbat, was successfully ascended by the duo on Tuesday. Shehroze took the honour of being the youngest mountaineer in the world to ascend Nanga Parbat, a mountain that is regarded as being the deadliest and fiercest.

  • Rescue operation starts for three mountaineers stranded on Rakaposhi

    Helicopters sent to rescue three mountaineers stranded on the Rakaposhi mountain of the Karakoram mountain range arrived in Hunza on Sunday and an operation to bring them back is underway, Geo News reported.

    As per reports, the three mountaineers include a Pakistani climber Wajidullah Nagri and Czech Republic mountaineers Jakub Vicek and Peter Macek.

    According to Deputy Commissioner Nagar Zulqarnain Khan, two helicopters arrived in Nagar for rescue operations. He said that the rescue team is in contact with the climbers, who are doing fine.

    The DC added that it will be difficult for a helicopter to go up to a height of 6,900 metres, where the climbers had been stuck, so they have been asked to descend.

    Rescue efforts on the ground are also underway, he said.

    The three mountaineers, two of whom belong to the Czech Republic, had summitted Rakaposhi on September 8, according to the Karakoram Club.

    A tweet by Pamir Times at 7pm on Sunday stated that the rescue operation was put off for the day due to bad weather and will resume today (Monday).