• About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
  • Login
WRITE FOR US
Economy.pk
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Life & Style
  • Health
  • World
No Result
View All Result
Economy.pk
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Life & Style
  • Health
  • World
Economy.pk
Home Life & Style Tourism

Pakistan climbing season reaches new heights as 1,400 foreign mountaineers arrive

byNews Desk
July 7, 2022
in Tourism
Reading Time: 1 min read
0
Pakistan climbing season reaches new heights as 1,400 foreign mountaineers arrive
254
SHARES
4.8k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

SKARDU: Pakistan is enjoying a bumper climbing season with around 1,400 foreign mountaineers bidding to scale its lofty peaks — including hundreds on the 8,611-meter (28,251-feet) K2, the world’s second-highest.

The country is home to five of the world’s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters, and climbing them all is considered the ultimate achievement of any mountaineer.

RelatedPosts

Islamabad Wildlife Management Board Restarts Guided Tours of Leopard Zone

Punjab launch Universal Helpline ‘1421’ for tourists’ guidance and complaints

First Pakistani woman to scale K2 says ‘absolute honor’ to hoist flag on Savage Mountain

“It is a record number,” Raja Nasir Ali Khan, tourism minister of Gilgit-Baltistan region, told AFP about the number of foreign climbers this year. Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, told AFP there were 57 expeditions planned for 23 Pakistan peaks this season — with 370 climbers having a crack at K2, known as “the savage mountain.”

Besides being far more technically difficult to climb than Everest, weather conditions are notoriously fickle on K2, which has only being scaled by 425 people since 1954.

More than 6,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top in 1953 — some of them multiple times.

Haidri said climbers this year include 90 women — including at least two Pakistanis aiming to become the country’s first to scale K2.

Tags: climbing seasonforeign mountaineers arriveK2
News Desk

News Desk

A source of economic, political, business, finance, health and sports updates.

Related Posts

Islamabad Wildlife Management Board Restarts Guided Tours of Leopard Zone

Islamabad Wildlife Management Board Restarts Guided Tours of Leopard Zone

The Margalla Hills National Park's Leopard Preserve Zone guided tours by the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWB) have resumed. According...

Punjab launch Universal Helpline ‘1421’ for tourists’ guidance and complaints

Punjab launch Universal Helpline ‘1421’ for tourists’ guidance and complaints

During a ceremony conducted at Arfa Software Technology Park, the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and the Department of Tourist...

Next Post
Pakistan’s Gas and Oil Production Declines in FY22

Pakistan’s Gas and Oil Production Declines in FY22

Recommended

Asad Raza Fruit-seller’s son, Graduates from GIK

Asad Raza Fruit-seller’s son, Graduates from GIKI

Pakistan was headed to Sri Lanka’s ‘default-like situation’ but crisis averted — finance minister

Pakistan was headed to Sri Lanka’s ‘default-like situation’ but crisis averted — finance minister

PKR gains Rs2.54 against dollar in interbank

PKR gains Rs2.54 against dollar in interbank

National Savings Begins Shariah-Compliant Investment

National Savings Begins Shariah-Compliant Investment

IMF program to bring macroeconomic stability: Miftah Ismail

IMF program to bring macroeconomic stability: Miftah Ismail

PSX rises over 550 points in early trade on expected UAE investment, IMF tranche

PSX rises over 550 points in early trade on expected UAE investment, IMF tranche

Connect with us

Twitter

Economy.pk

Economy.pk touches diverse topics with a lighter note and is geared toward audiences with various interests and all ages. Come and explore Economy.pk. Ample details and analysis are provided in extraordinarily readable manner making them compelling and interesting at the same time.

Category

  • World
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Education
  • Health
  • Life & Style
  • Opinions

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

Sitelinks

  • Sitemap

Download our APP

download on android app download on apple app
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Contact

© 2022 All Rights Reserved Economy.pk | Designed & Developed by Digital Otters

  • LATEST
  • World
    • Europe
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Oceania
    • Africa
    • Canada
    • Middle East
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Finance
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Real Estate
  • Technology
    • Cyber Security
    • Mobiles
    • Social Media
  • Education
  • Sports
  • Life & Style
    • Personalities
    • Art
    • Culture
    • History
    • Entertainment
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Health
      • Environment
      • Fitness
  • Sponsored

© 2022 All Rights Reserved Economy.pk | Designed & Developed by Digital Otters

No Result
View All Result

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In