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Sherpa becomes the first person to climb the world’s 14 tallest peaks twice after reaching top of Gasherbrum II.A 47-year-old Nepalese Sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world’s 14 peaks higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 feet) for a second time, according to his agency. On ...

KARACHI, PakistanFrom starting as a porter in his teens, Sirbaz Khan has since scaled the heights of mountaineering, becoming the only Pakistani to climb nine peaks over 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) tall, including the world’s two tallest mountains, Everest and the mighty K2.Hailing from the picturesque Hunza Valley of ...

LAHORE, PAKISTAN —  Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif faced many dangers climbing the planet's tallest peaks, but his toughest moment came when he passed the corpse of his hero on the savage slopes of K2. Kashif was 19 years and 138 days old when in July he became the youngest ...

KARACHI, PakistanAdding another feather to his cap, Shehroze Kashif, 19, scaled K2 on Tuesday, making him the youngest-ever Pakistani to climb the world's second-tallest peak.According to his family, and the Alpine Club of Pakistan, the country's state-run mountaineering organization, Kashif "successfully" climbed the 8,611-meter (28,251-foot) peak on Tuesday morning ...

KARACHI, PakistanAdding another feather to his cap, Shehroze Kashif, 19, scaled K2 on Tuesday, making him the youngest-ever Pakistani to climb the world's second-tallest peak.According to his family, and the Alpine Club of Pakistan, the country's state-run mountaineering organization, Kashif "successfully" climbed the 8,611-meter (28,251-foot) peak on Tuesday morning ...

A Scottish mountaineer has died in an avalanche on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.Rick Allen was killed in the avalanche after he had attempted to take a new route to the peak.Aberdeen-born Mr Allen, 68, was climbing to raise money for the Partners Relief & Development charity, which is ...

A Scottish climber has died in an avalanche on K2 as he attempted to take a new route to the summit.Rick Allen was attempting to climb the world’s second highest mountain to raise money for the Partners Relief & Development charity.The 68-year-old mountaineer from Aberdeen was caught in an ...

ISLAMABAD, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A search operation is underway to find missing South Korean climber Kim Hong-bin, a Pakistani private tour operator that arranged Kim's expedition said on Sunday. Kim went missing after falling into a crevasse in bad weather in the Karakoram mountain range when the climber ...

Kim Hong-bin, who has no fingers, is thought to have fallen into a crevasse on a descent in Pakistan. Source link

KARACHI, Pakistan​​​​​​​Shehroze Kashif, 19, scaled Mount Everest on Tuesday, becoming the youngest ever Pakistani to climb the world's tallest peak.According to the Alpine Club of Pakistan, the country's state-run mountaineering organization, Kashif "successfully" climbed the 8,849 meters high peak on Tuesday morning.Photo: Shehroze KashifKarrar Haidri, the Secretary-General of Alpine Club, ...