Famend Pakistani climber Saad Munawar. — reporter
Including one other feather in his cap, famend Pakistani climber Saad Munawar scaled the 8,848-metre Mount Everest on Saturday.
Munawar hoisted Pakistan’s flag on the high of the world’s tallest mountain earlier this morning. He achieved the outstanding feat beneath the supervision of Dawa Gyalje Sherpa.
Earlier, he had summited Mount Aconcagua.
Final week, mountaineer Sirbaz Khan made historical past by changing into the primary and solely Pakistani to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks with out using supplemental oxygen, finishing the monumental achievement on Sunday together with his profitable ascent of Kangchenjunga.
Sirbaz, a resident of Hunza valley, summited the 8,586m peak at 11:50am native time, marking the fruits of a years-long quest. Whereas he had beforehand climbed all 14 of the “eight-thousanders,” he had used bottled oxygen on two of these earlier ascents close to the summit.
To realize the no-oxygen distinction, he returned this season to climb Annapurna in April and Kangchenjunga in Could, each with out synthetic oxygen assist.
“Even though I had summited all 14×8000m peaks in the world, there was still something missing,” Sirbaz had mentioned when he arrived at Annapurna earlier. “When I first announced my project after summiting Nanga Parbat in 2017, my aim was simple: 14×8000m summits without using O2, and that’s why I returned.”
He’s amongst an elite group of round 70 climbers worldwide who’ve summited all 14 peaks above 8,000m. Lower than 25 have finished so fully with out supplemental oxygen, a feat that calls for excessive endurance within the oxygen-deprived “death zone” above 8,000m.
His achievement is available in lower than a yr after he initially accomplished all 14 peaks, a milestone that had already cemented his place as one in all Pakistan’s best high-altitude climbers. Nonetheless, he sought to push additional by re-climbing the 2 peaks the place he had beforehand relied on oxygen.
