ISLAMABAD: Another Pakistani climber Sirbaz Khan achieved yet another milestone when he scaled the tallest peak in the world Mount Everest on Wednesday.
“Today at 6:05 am, Sirbaz Khan successfully climbed Mount Everest,” Secretary Alpine Club of Pakistan, Karrar Haidri told while sharing a photo of Sirbaz standing atop the Everest with Pakistan flag in his hands.
“This is his seventh feat to climb above 8,000m mountains. In the last 26 days, he has summited two 8,000m peaks,” he added. According to ACP secretary, Sirbaz is on the mission to become the first Pakistani to climb the world’s all 14 above 8,000m peaks.“It is wonderful that our mountaineers are making history, exhibiting great strength and courage,” he reckoned.
Sirbaz became first Pakistani to summit Mount Lhotse worlds 4th highest peak 8,516m in Nepal without use of O2. other 8,000m summits include K2, Nanga Parbat, Broad peak, Manaslu & Anapurna. 4 of his 8,000m peaks Sirbaz accompanied Ali Sadpara last expedition together was Manaslu pic.twitter.com/7OSJt7S4HY
— Alpine Adventure Guides (@Alpine_Pakistan) May 12, 2021
Last month, Sirbaz along with Muhammad Abdul Joshi, another Pakistan mountaineer climbed the 8,091-metre Annapurna peak in Nepal, becoming the first Pakistan duo to achieve the feat. “Sirbaz has achieved half of his target now. Hopefully, we will soon see him climbing the rest of the highest peaks too,” Haidri added.
The 32-year-old Sirbaz, who hails from Aliabad, Hunza, began his climbing career in 2016. Prior to Mount Everest and Annapurna, he has ascended K2, Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak, Lhotse, and Manaslu.
On May 11, A 19-year-old Shehroze Kashif had become the youngest Pakistani to scale the world’s largest mountain above sea level, Mount Everest.
Shehroze Kashif successfully scaled the 8,849-metre mountain peak and hoisted the Pakistani flag. Shehroze Kashif left base camp on May 6 for the summit of Mount Everest and reached Camp 2 on May 7.
JUST IN: Shehroze Kashif, 19, just became the youngest Pakistani on the summit of Mt #Everest (8848.86 m). CONGRATULATIONS!????
Photo ©: Shehroze Kashif/Facebook. pic.twitter.com/nDcXs6Rk4n
— Everest Today (@EverestToday) May 11, 2021
“After years of wait and prep, the moment has arrived finally so it is getting very hard to control my emotions. I’m bursting with excitement, energy and determination. The last couple of years I have done all I could to prepare and be ready for this moment,” Kashif wrote on his Facebook before setting off.
It is to be noted, Pakistani mountaineers Nazir Sabir, Hasan Sadpara and Samina Baig have earlier conquered the world’s highest mountain before Kashif.
Mount Everest is the earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) was most recently established in 2020 by the Nepali and Chinese authorities.
