5 Pakistani mountaineers summit Nanga Parbat
Five Pakistani climbers have scaled the world’s ninth and Pakistan’s second highest peak, Nanga Parbat, in the last 24 hours.
Two of them scaled the 8,126-meter-high Nanga Parbat without the help of artificial oxygen.
Ashraf Sadpara, son of the late mountaineer Ali Raza Sadpara, also summited Nanga Parbat today. Ashraf Sadpara has achieved the honor of summiting all five peaks in Pakistan above 8,000 meters.
According to information received from the Alpine Club of Pakistan and the mountaineering community of Pakistan, the climbers who have scaled Nanga Parbat in the last 24 hours include Dr. Rana Hassan Javed, Ali Hassan, Sohail Sakhi, Ashraf Sadpara and Sherzad Karim, of whom Ashraf Sadpara and Sohail Sakhi scaled Nanga Parbat without using artificial oxygen.
Dr. Rana Hassan Javed, who lives in Rawalpindi, had scaled Nanga Parbat yesterday. Dr. Hassan was part of a team of 8 local and foreign climbers. Nanga Parbat is his second 8,000-meter peak. Earlier, he had scaled Gesherbram II last year.
Along with Dr. Rana Hassan, high-altitude porter Ali Hassan, who hails from the Hoshe Valley, also scaled Nanga Parbat yesterday.
Sohail Sakhi, a native of Aliabad, Hunza, climbed Nanga Parbat this morning without oxygen support. He reached the summit at 11 am local time. Nanga Parbat is Sohail Sakhi’s fourth peak above 8,000 meters. He had also previously climbed K2, G1 and G2. Sohail Sakhi did not use oxygen support on Gesherbram I and Gesherbram II either.
