Pakistan mountaineer Abdul Joshi has successfully scaled the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8,848 metres) and hoisted the Pakistani flag on top of the world.
Joshi, aged 38 and a resident of Hunza, started his final summit from Camp 4 last night and reached the top on Monday morning. Joshi was part of the team led by Nepalese mountaineer Mingma G Sherpa.
The ascent was confirmed on his social media accounts. “Alhamdulliah! Another triumph for Pakistan! Abdul Joshi has summited Mount Everest – the Highest Mountain in the World. May Allah be praised for all His glory,” the post read.
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He is the eighth Pakistani to successfully scale Mount Everest. Nazir Sabir, Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, Hassan Sadpara, Mirza Ali Baig, Samina Baig, Shehroze Kashif and Sirbaz Ali Khan have also summitted the highest peak in the world.
In April last year, Joshi, along with Sirbaz Khan, had scaled 8,091 metres Annapurna peak. His first peak was Manglik Sar at 6,050 metres. He caught everyone’s attention when he led a team for the first-ever successful summit of Passu Cones in Gilgit.
Known as the “pathfinder” among mountaineers, Joshi is one of the most skilled climbers in the country but focuses on unclimbed peaks. Joshi is likely to return to the base camp on May 18.
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