4 Pakistani climbers among the first to submit K-2 this year
Pakistani mountaineers Muhammad Ali Sadpara, Imtiaz Sadpara, Fida Ali and Ali Musa climbed K2 along a team of 31 international mountaineers from different countries.
Pakistan is home to an alpine paradise where five of the fourteen 8000m peaks including K2(Savage Mountain), Gasherbrum 1 and 2 and Broad Peak and Nanga Parbat stand proudly, alongside hundreds of unclimbed 6000m and 7000m peaks.
Although the terrain is harsh and literally known as the ‘death zone’, the 35 member team of climbers including four from Pakistan made a push for the K2 summit.
At 8,611m, K2 is almost 237m lower than Mount Everest 8,848 m, but it’s sharper and much harder to climb as compared to the 14 mountains in the world over 8,000 meters. K2 has the highest failure rate but two months hard work of foreign and national climbers has finally paid off as they climbed K2 in the first summit of K2 this summer.
The Pakistani climbers Muhammad Ali Sadpara, Imtiaz Sadpara, Fida Ali and Ali Musa hail from the villages of Sadpara, Shigar and Hushe valleys in Gilgit-Baltistan region.
The team members are:
Jianjonh Li and Changjuan He (China), Noel Hanna (Ireland), Muhammad Ali Sadpara, Imtiaz Sadpara, Fida Ali and Ali Musa (Pakistan), Yoshiharu Nakamura and Naoko Watanabe (Japan), Gangaamaa Badamgarav (Mongolia), Viridiana Alvarez Chavez (Mexico), Sophie Lavaud (Switzerland), Dimarescu (USA), Marek Novotony (Czech Republic), Paul Hegge (Belgium) and Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, Chhiji Norbu Sherpa, Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa, Lhakpa Temba Sherpa, Krishna Thapa Magar, Pemba Thinduk Sherpa, Ngima Thenduk Sherpa, Ngima Dorchi Sherpa, Dawa Sangay Sherpa, Lhakpa Nuru Sherpa, Pastemba Sherpa, Mingma Tenjen Sherpa, Furba Ongdi Sherpa, Gheorghe and another climber from Nepal.
