Tag: mountains
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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Nepal missing plane found: Rescue recovers 14 bodies
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…
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Pakistani mountaineer climbs world’s third-highest peak
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…
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Pakistan Army rescues three mountaineers stranded on Rakaposhi
A Pakistan Army helicopter has rescued three mountaineers who were stranded on Rakaposhi mountain on Wednesday morning, Geo News reported. As per details, Pakistani climber, Wajidullah Nagri, and two Czech Republic mountaineers had been stuck at an altitude of 6,900 metres on the mountain for the past five days. Taking to Twitter, Deputy Commissioner Nagar…
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Sajid Ali Sadpara to return to K2 to find his father’s dead body
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…
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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…
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Trash on Everest to be turned into art to highlight mountain’s garbage problem
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…
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IN PICTURES: Nepali mountaineers first to summit K2 in winter
On January 16, a team of 10 Nepali mountaineers summited K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world. Prior to this ascent, the mountain had never before been conquered in winter. The Nepali team of mountaineers that climbed the K2 includes Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, Nirmal Purja, Pun Magar, Gelje Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa,…