News Desk An Australian climber along with a team of local mountaineers has climbed a peak in Shimshal, says a post by the trekking company on its Facebook page. Two famous climbers, Shaheen Baig and Qudrat Ali, explored a new route to the top of the peak along with Karonny. The 29-year-old Australian climber contacted the duo mountaineer friends through …

Farman Baltistani SKARDU, Aug 21: Babar Khan won the first highest cold desert jeep rally at the Sarfa Ranga desert of Shigar District on Sunday after a tough competition between 72 jeep drivers and 20 motorcyclists coming from different cities of the country. In A category, driver Babar Khan won the 30km race in 18 minutes and 25 seconds followed …

Correspondent SKARDU, Aug 19: The first ever cold desert jeep rally started here on Saturday. Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Speaker #Fida #Muhammad #Nashad inaugurated the event. While addressing the guests and the participating drivers, he announced that next year the event will be organized at international level. He said Baltistan is home to lofty peaks including K2, the world’s second highest …

HAH Correspondent SKARDU, Aug 14: All is set for highest cold desert jeep rally being held this week. About 200 drivers from abroad, Pakistan and locals will participate in the event, officials told The High Asia Herald on Sunday. The #Sarfa #Ranga in #Shigar District of #Baltistan Division, about 20km off Skardu, is one of the highest cold deserts in …

Karimullah & Mustafa Kamal SHANDUR (Chitral), July 31: Chitral maintained their supremacy by winning the three-day polo tournament defeating their arch-rival Gilgit in a thrilling match on the final of the three-day freestyle polo played on the highest polo ground of the world here on 31st July. Chitral A won the tournament in style beating Gilgit A, with a wide margin of …

News Desk Aminullah Baig, a veteran mountaineer, has set a new record of scaling all 8,000-meter high peaks in Pakistan by making it to the summit of the 8047-meter-high Broad Peak in the Karakoram Ranges on Thursday. Amin, who hails from Shimshal, known as the ‘valley of mountaineers’, has earlier scaled K2 (8,611m), the second highest mountain peak in the …

Skardu: A team of Pakistani and international mountaineers climbed the Broad Peak (8051 m), 12th highest mountain in the world ACP, quoting Furtenbach Adventures, said a long weekend of bad weather on the 8,051 metre high peak, had almost made the expedition a nonstarter, but persistent wait paid off and the climbers scaled the summit. “Deep snow and strong winds …

Herald Report A South Korean climber and a Nepali Sherpa have conquered Nanga Parbat “the killer mountain” the first summit of the summer season, media reports say. Kim Hong Bin of South Korea and Lakpa Nuru Sherpa of Nepal reached the summit on Friday evening, after enduring several days of cold and hunger at a 7200m altitude of Nanga Parbat. …

Several teams are on the move on Broad Peak, GII and K2 Herald Report A South Korean climber and a Nepali Sherpa have conquered Nanga Parbat “the killer mountain” the first summit of the summer season, media reports say.Kim Hong Bin of South Korea and Lakpa Nuru Sherpa of Nepal reached the summit on Friday evening, after enduring several days …