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Scaling all 8000ers: Sirbaz inches closer to goal

By thehighasia
August 14, 2022
in :  Climbing, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Hunza, Karakoram Ranges, Mountaineering
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Gashaerbrum-I summit

Sirbaz Ali Khan scaled on August 12, 2022, Gasherbrum-I, the 11th highest mountain in the world, and the 12th on the list of his target of scaling all 14 peaks News Desk Internationally acclaimed mountaineer Sirbaz Ali Khan Friday (August 12) put another feather in his cap by scaling Gasharbrum-I the 11th highest mountain in the world. With the summit …

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Everest: still climbing’s most coveted prize

By thehighasia
August 13, 2022
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Mount Everest

Everest, the world’s highest mountain, is a sought-after prize, though rampant commercialization has significantly changed the climbing experience, writes Owen Clarke in the Outside+ online magazine. Standing at 8,848 meters (29,031 feet) tall on Earth, also known as Chomolungma (Tibetan) and Sagarmāthā (Nepali), Everest is the world’s highest mountain. Located in the Khumbu region of the Mahālangūr Himāl, a sub-range …

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Another feather in the cap of Kashif Shehroze

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Climbing, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Karakoram Ranges, Latest News, Mountaineering, Slider, Sports
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Youngest climber on G-II

Kashif Shehroze aka Broadboy on Aug 8, 2022 became the youngest climber in the world to summit Gasherbrum-II mountain.

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K2 is beginning to look a lot like Everest

By thehighasia
July 29, 2022
in :  Baltistan Division, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, Himalayas, Mountaineering, Nepal, Pakistan, Sports, Tourism
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Climbing

When 145 climbers summited K2 in a single record-breaking day last week, it made the second-highest mountain in the world look more like Everest at its crowded worst.

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K2: 6 women achieve milestones in mountaineering

By thehighasia
July 23, 2022
in :  Climbing, Gilgit-Baltistan, Hunza, Karakoram Ranges, Mountaineering, Nagar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Slider, Sports, Tourism, Women
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women-climbers

Pakistan's Samina Baig and Naila Kiani, as well as Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, Lebanese-Arab Nelly Attar, Bangladesh's Wasifa Nazreen and Stefi Torguet of Andorra stand on the second highest peak on earth. Over a dozen climbers reach the summit. Afghan climber dies of heart attack

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Climbing season reaches new heights

By thehighasia
July 8, 2022
in :  Gilgit-Baltistan, Mountaineering
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AFP Pakistan is enjoying a bumper climbing season with around 1,400 foreign mountaineers bidding to scale its lofty peaks — including hundreds on the 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) K2, the world’s second highest. “It is a record number,” Raja Nasir Ali Khan, Minister for Tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan, told AFP. The country is home to five of the world’s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 …

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Three women set new records in mountaineering

By thehighasia
July 6, 2022
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Mountaineering

Tseng Ko-Erh aka Grace Tseng from Taiwanese and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (Akita) become the first woman in their countries to conquer Nanga Parbat

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Climber Iman Karim falls to death on G-II

By Inayat Amir
July 5, 2022
in :  Accident, Climbing, Gilgit-Baltistan, Himalayas, Mountaineering
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Iman Karim was part of an expedition along with noted mountaineer Sirbaz Khan and Rana Javed.

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Denis Urubko on Nims, O2, and the rules of winter

By thehighasia
February 24, 2022
in :  High Asia Region, Mountaineering, Tourism
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News Desk In a wide-ranging conversation last weekend, Denis Urubko gave his take on the current and future state of high-altitude mountaineering — including his doubts that Nirmal Purja summited winter K2 without oxygen. At 49, Urubko bears the confident air of a veteran warrior. At the same time, he recognizes the increasing gulf between his values and those of …

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K2 winter climb: how a Nepali team made history

By thehighasia
January 16, 2022
in :  Archives, Climbing, Mountaineering, Nepal
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Climbing

Driven by national pride, 10 elite mountaineers united to make it to the top of K2 in the dead of winter, writes FREDDIE WILKINSON in the Nat GEO Magazine published on Jan 13, 2022 Swallowed by the empty black night, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa tried to focus the shaky orb of his headlamp on his next few steps, but the cold overwhelmed …

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Two girls set a new record by skiing down a peak

By thehighasia
December 16, 2021
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Skiing

Two young climbers also ski down the 6,050m high Mingligh Sar peak Herald Report Parveena Ismail raising Pakistani flag on the summit of the 6050m high Mingligh Sar peak at Shimshal Pamir Pass on December 3, 2021. Photo by Wasim Haidar. In a first, two girls have set a new record perhaps the first in Pakistan’s mountaineering history, to ski …

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High drama on Rakaposhi ends with rescue of 3 stranded climbers

By thehighasia
September 16, 2021
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Climbing

What went wrong with the climbers and how to avoid such risks? Abdul Joshi, leader of the rescue team and an established climber in an exclusive interview with The High Asia Herald highlights the factors that created problems and suggests steps for putting in place complete rescue arrangements and safety gears.

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Operation to rescue 3 climbers stranded at Rakaposhi aborted

By thehighasia
September 13, 2021
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Rakaposhi

The rescue operation will resume on Monday; one local and two Czech climbers are stranded at 6900m altitude at Rakaposhi since Thursday High Asia Herald Report Wajidullah Nagri (left) of Pakistan and his two Czech climbing partners, Peter Macek and Jakub Vicek. Photo Twitter The search and rescue operation for the three climbers who are stranded at the Rakaposhi peak …

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Team at Nilt to start rescue operation at Rakaposhi

By thehighasia
September 12, 2021
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Rakaposhi rescue operation

As the rescue team waits for the helicopter, communication has been re-established with the three climbers stranded at Rakaposhi for the last three days.

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12 HAPs from Hushe scale skyscrapers of Karakoram

By thehighasia
July 31, 2021
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Young climbers made their debut climbing of 8000er after getting training from Hushe Welfare Mountaineering and Climbing School

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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