Pakistani girls set record as youngest to scal 6,080-metre Manglessar peak
Pakistani girls Amina Hanif, Maryam Bashir Siddiqa Batool have earned the record to be the youngest to climb 6,080-metre Manglessar peak in the Shimshal valley in Karakoram mountain range.
Three young girls from Pakistan Amina Hanif, Maryam Bashir Siddiqa Batool have earned themselves a world record by climbing a 6,080-metre Manglessar peak in the Shimshal valley in Karakoram mountain range. This is the first female team to have climbed up the peak from its north side.
The young girls aged 13-year-old Amina Hanif, 14-year-old Maryam Bashir and 15-year-old Siddiqa Batool are all students of Shimshal Mountaineering School and belong from the Hushey valley of Gilgit-Baltistan and are granddaughters of famous mountaineer Little Karim.
The girls were accompanied by their grandfather on the incredible yet laborious summit along with nine other climbers including four foreigners.
“If our grandfather did not motivate and encourage us we could not have made history and become youngest female climbers in the mountaineering world.” the girls said!
“This is the start of our career and in future we wish to scale the world’s loftiest peak Mount Everest and K2,” Amina said.
The trio started their expedition on July 16 and reached atop the Manglessar peak on July 29, their father said. Their grandfather Little Karim, a globally-renowned mountain climber, said that he launched this campaign to encourage more women from Gilgit-Baltistan to take interest in mountaineering.
“It will no doubt create mountaineering and climbing trend among women in Baltistan as they are brave and hardworking,” he hoped.
