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Mountaineer Shehroze Kashif becomes youngest Pakistani to scale K2

GILGIT: Nineteen-year-old Shehroze Kashif has become the youngest Pakistani to summit Mount K2, the second tallest peak in the world. The 19-year-old successfully climbed the 8,611-metre mountain early Tuesday and hoisted the Pakistani flag. He also shared a post on

First blind Chinese mountaineer scales Mount Everest

KATHMANDU: Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled Mount Everest from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb the tallest peak in the world. “No matter if you’re disabled or normal,

Rescue mission to use SAR technology in search for missing mountaineers

SKARDU: A special search and rescue mission will make use of advanced technology to recover missing mountaineer Ali Sadpara and the other two foreign climbers who went missing last week. Families of three missing climbers have vowed to carry on