A 19-year previous Pakistani climber on Tuesday turned the youngest individual on this planet to succeed in the summit of K2, the second-highest peak on this planet.
Shehroze Kashif from Lahore achieved the feat of scaling the 8,611-metre excessive peak with the help of bottled oxygen.
“Good News! Received the confirmation from K2 Base Camp that Shehroze Kashif has summited K2 8611-M. It’s a new world record!!!!!!!!!! Youngest in the world to stand on top of K2 8611-M at the age of 19 years. Congratulations!,” Karrar Haidri, Secretary Alpine Club of Pakistan, mentioned in an announcement.
Before Kashif, Sajid Sadpara, the son of the legendary climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara, was the youngest individual to have climbed K2 on the age of 20.
Kashif additionally scaled the world”s Twelfth-highest mountain, the 8,047-meter Broad Peak, on the age of 17. In May this 12 months, he turned the youngest Pakistani to scale Mount Everest.
His mom, Nadia Kashif, in a message to the media mentioned Kashif is a robust and passionate climber.
“I told his father not to be worried, and that he never disappoints,” she mentioned.
“I was talking to him (Kashif) the other day and I asked him if he misses his home and he replied, ”I’m at residence”. How might you cease somebody who believes that his house is the place the mountains are?” she mentioned.
Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated the younger mountaineer.
“Congratulations Pakistan!! Pakistani mountaineer Shehroz Kashif (@shehrozekashif2) has become the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit K2 – the world”s second highest peak,” Khan tweeted.
The US embassy additionally congratulated him.
“Congratulations Pakistan! @Shehrozekashif2 has set the record for being the youngest Pakistani to reach the K2 summit! What an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations Shehroze Kashif!” it tweeted.
Haidri additionally mentioned {that a} separate group of 4 different Pakistani climbers from Hushe Valley reached the highest of K2, also called the Savage Mountain.
Pakistan, Nepal and China are residence to the 14 highest peaks on this planet, also called the 8,000ers. Five 8,000-metre peaks, together with K2 and Nanga Parbat are in Pakistan.
Nanga Parbat and K2 are thought-about as essentially the most tough and difficult by the climbers.