ISLAMABAD: A girl from Pakistan and one other from Iran seem like the primary females from their nations to achieve the highest of K2, one of many world’s highest and most harmful summits, a mountaineering official stated Friday.
Samina Baig, a32-year-old mountaineer from a distant northern village in Pakistan, hoisted her nation’s inexperienced and white flag atop the height of the 28,250 foot-high K2 mountain on Friday. In 2013, she was the primary Pakistani lady to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. Iran’s Afsaneh Hesamifard, who based on Iranian media grew to become solely the third lady to achieve the highest of Mount Everest this previous Could, was hailed in Farsi- language posts on social media.
They have been amongst a number of ladies to efficiently attain K2’s peak on Friday, based on Karrar Haidri, chief officer of the Pakistan Alpine Membership, which helps coordinate between climbers and the federal government within the occasion of an emergency, but in addition previous to and throughout the climbs. He stated a second Pakistani feminine climber, Naila Kiyani, was among the many staff to achieve the highest of the mountain, however it appeared that Baig had arrived to its peak a couple of minutes earlier.
K2, on the Chinese language-Pakistani border within the Karakorum Vary, has one of many deadliest data with most individuals dying on the way in which down. Just a few hundred have efficiently reached its summit. In distinction, Mount Everest has been summited over 9,000 occasions. Haidri stated. Afghan climber, Ali Akbar Sakki, died on Thursday resulting from a coronary heart assault whereas making an attempt to scale K2. The mountain is taken into account extraordinarily troublesome to climb. Not solely is it the second highest after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are thought of rather more difficult that the world’s highest.
K2 is the coldest and windiest of climbs. At locations alongside the route, climbers should navigate almost sheer rock faces rising 80 levels, whereas avoiding frequent and unpredictable avalanches. The most recent report comes a day after Nepalese climber Sanu Sherpa set a brand new mountaineering report for twice reaching the height of every of the world’s 14 highest mountains.
Samina Baig, a32-year-old mountaineer from a distant northern village in Pakistan, hoisted her nation’s inexperienced and white flag atop the height of the 28,250 foot-high K2 mountain on Friday. In 2013, she was the primary Pakistani lady to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. Iran’s Afsaneh Hesamifard, who based on Iranian media grew to become solely the third lady to achieve the highest of Mount Everest this previous Could, was hailed in Farsi- language posts on social media.
They have been amongst a number of ladies to efficiently attain K2’s peak on Friday, based on Karrar Haidri, chief officer of the Pakistan Alpine Membership, which helps coordinate between climbers and the federal government within the occasion of an emergency, but in addition previous to and throughout the climbs. He stated a second Pakistani feminine climber, Naila Kiyani, was among the many staff to achieve the highest of the mountain, however it appeared that Baig had arrived to its peak a couple of minutes earlier.
K2, on the Chinese language-Pakistani border within the Karakorum Vary, has one of many deadliest data with most individuals dying on the way in which down. Just a few hundred have efficiently reached its summit. In distinction, Mount Everest has been summited over 9,000 occasions. Haidri stated. Afghan climber, Ali Akbar Sakki, died on Thursday resulting from a coronary heart assault whereas making an attempt to scale K2. The mountain is taken into account extraordinarily troublesome to climb. Not solely is it the second highest after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are thought of rather more difficult that the world’s highest.
K2 is the coldest and windiest of climbs. At locations alongside the route, climbers should navigate almost sheer rock faces rising 80 levels, whereas avoiding frequent and unpredictable avalanches. The most recent report comes a day after Nepalese climber Sanu Sherpa set a brand new mountaineering report for twice reaching the height of every of the world’s 14 highest mountains.