On Friday, three Pakistani mountaineers broke a few records when they reached the top of Gasherbrum-I (G-I), the eleventh-highest mountain in the world, which is located above 8,000 meters.
The Karakorum mountain range in Pakistan, which straddles the international borders of India, Pakistan, and China, is home to G-1, which is situated at an elevation of 8,080 meters above sea level.
Shehroze Kashif, a 20-year-old Pakistani, reached the peak of the mountain this morning, on Friday. He accomplished the five-peak feat of Pakistan’s eight-thousanders—the 14 mountains in the globe that are higher than 8,000 feet—becoming the youngest climber in the world and the first ever from Pakistan.
“Alhamdulillah, today at 4:09 a.m. PST, #ShehrozeKashif has summited Gasherbrum I 8,080m,” Kashif’s account wrote on Twitter.
Wednesday saw Kashif summit Gasherbrum-II, the world’s thirteenth-highest mountain, breaking the record for the youngest mountaineer.
On Friday, Sirbaz Khan, a native of Pakistan’s mountainous Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan area, also reached the summit of G-I, making him the first Pakistani to climb 12 of the top 14 mountains in the world.
Khan is the second Pakistani after Kashif to have scaled all five of Pakistan’s eight-thousander peaks.
“Sirbaz reached the mountain’s summit without utilizing extra oxygen. Sirbaz has now ascended all 8,000 mountains in Pakistan and Nepal, according to Saad Munawar, Khan’s manager, who posted on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Dubai-based Pakistani mountaineer Naila Kiani became the first female climber from Pakistan to summit G-I. She has so far summited three of the eight-thousanders.
“No doubt! It’s a very happy and proud movement for Pakistan as our three Pakistani [mountaineers] Shehroze Kashif, Naila Kiani and Sirbaz Khan, summited G-I today, setting new records,” Karrar Haidri, secretary general of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, told Arab News.
When Kiani successfully ascended Gasherbrum-II, the thirteenth-highest mountain in the world, in July, she added another achievement to her resume.
According to Karrar, more than 1,700 trekkers and mountaineers arrived in Pakistan for the first time ever, and more than 160 of them summited K2 alone. He continued, “It’s a record in history.”
