Islamabad: A woman of Pakistan and from another Iran appears to be the first woman from her countries to reach the top K2It is one of the highest and most dangerous summits in the world, a mountaineering official said on Friday.
Samina Baig, a 32-year-old mountaineer from a remote northern village in Pakistan, unfurled her country’s green and white flag on top of the 28,250-foot-high K2. hill on Friday. In 2013, she was the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Iranian Afsaneh HesamifordAccording to Iranian media, who became only the third woman to summit Mount Everest last May, she was greeted in a Persian-language post on social media.
She was one of several women to successfully summit the K2 on Friday, according to Pakistan Alpine Club chief officer Karrar Hydari, which helps coordinate between climbers and the government in the event of an emergency, but before and after the climb. Even during He said another Pakistani woman climber, Naila Kiyani, was part of the team that reached the top of the mountain, but Baig appeared to have reached its peak a few minutes earlier.
The K2 on the Sino-Pakistan border in the Karakoram range is one of the deadliest on record, with most people dying on the way. Only a few hundred have successfully reached its summit. In contrast, Mount Everest has been scaled more than 9,000 times. Hydari said. Afghan climber Ali Akbar Sakki died of a heart attack on Thursday while attempting to scale the K2. Climbing the mountain is considered extremely difficult. Not only is it the second highest point after Mount Everest, but its ascent and descent is considered to be more challenging than the highest point in the world.
K2 is the coldest and fastest mountain of mountaineering. To avoid frequent and unexpected avalanches, in places along the route, climbers must navigate raised rocky faces of about 80 degrees. The latest record comes a day after a Nepalese climber Shanu Sherpa Set a new mountaineering record for reaching the summit of each of the world’s 14 tallest mountains twice.
Samina Baig, a 32-year-old mountaineer from a remote northern village in Pakistan, unfurled her country’s green and white flag on top of the 28,250-foot-high K2. hill on Friday. In 2013, she was the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Iranian Afsaneh HesamifordAccording to Iranian media, who became only the third woman to summit Mount Everest last May, she was greeted in a Persian-language post on social media.
She was one of several women to successfully summit the K2 on Friday, according to Pakistan Alpine Club chief officer Karrar Hydari, which helps coordinate between climbers and the government in the event of an emergency, but before and after the climb. Even during He said another Pakistani woman climber, Naila Kiyani, was part of the team that reached the top of the mountain, but Baig appeared to have reached its peak a few minutes earlier.
The K2 on the Sino-Pakistan border in the Karakoram range is one of the deadliest on record, with most people dying on the way. Only a few hundred have successfully reached its summit. In contrast, Mount Everest has been scaled more than 9,000 times. Hydari said. Afghan climber Ali Akbar Sakki died of a heart attack on Thursday while attempting to scale the K2. Climbing the mountain is considered extremely difficult. Not only is it the second highest point after Mount Everest, but its ascent and descent is considered to be more challenging than the highest point in the world.
K2 is the coldest and fastest mountain of mountaineering. To avoid frequent and unexpected avalanches, in places along the route, climbers must navigate raised rocky faces of about 80 degrees. The latest record comes a day after a Nepalese climber Shanu Sherpa Set a new mountaineering record for reaching the summit of each of the world’s 14 tallest mountains twice.