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Jul 28, 2021

19-year-old Pakistani becomes the world’s youngest to climb K2

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MARATHON MAN: Shehroze Kashif has already scaled the world’s 12th highest mountain, 8,047-metre Broad Peak, at the age of 17, and in May, became the youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. He now holds an additional record as the youngest person to have summited K2 and Everest.
MARATHON MAN: Shehroze Kashif has already scaled the world’s 12th highest mountain, 8,047-metre Broad Peak, at the age of 17, and in May, became the youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. He now holds an additional record as the youngest person to have summited K2 and Everest.

A 19-year-old Pakistani has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world’s second highest mountain, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said yesterday.

Shehroze Kashif reached the 8,611 metre summit at 8:10am yesterday. Kashif, who began climbing in his early teens, scaled the world’s 12th highest mountain, 8,047 metre Broad Peak, at the age of 17. In May, he became the youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain.

He now holds an additional record as the youngest person to have summited K2 and Everest.
Several of Pakistan’s youngest climbers have been on K2 in recent days. Sajid Ali Sadpara, who in 2019 became the youngest to climb K2 at the age of 20, is part of an expedition there to find the body of his father, who went missing along with two other climbers in February.

On Monday, Ms. Samina Baig, 30, the youngest Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest in 2013 abandoned her attempt to summit the mountain because of dangerous conditions.

With Pakistan’s borders open the country’s summer climbing season is attracting a large number of alpinists.

Known as “the savage mountain,” K2 has harsh conditions-winds can blow at more than 200 kilometres per hour and temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius.

Unlike the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, which has been scaled by thousands of climbers young and old, K2 is much less travelled.

(With cooperation of Gulf Times)

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