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Fri Jul 22, 2022 07:19 PM Final replace on: Sat Jul 23, 2022 05:34 PM
Wasfia Nazreen. Photograph: Collected.
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Wasfia Nazreen. Photograph: Collected.
Wasfia Nazreen early right now (July 22, 2022) grew to become the primary particular person from Bangladesh to scale Pakistan’s infamous K2, the world’s second highest mountain, her expedition instructed AFP.
Wasfia is generally recognized for being the one Bangladeshi and first Bangalee on this planet to climb the Seven Summits — the very best mountains of each continent.
For all newest information, comply with The Day by day Star’s Google Information channel. Her expedition, sponsored by Renata Restricted, consisted of a number of the strongest and most famed climbers on this planet — MingmaTenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja.
She started her push for the summit on Sunday. The 39-year-old reached the highest of the 8,611m (28,251ft) peak early right now.
Pakistan is house to 5 of the world’s 14 mountains larger than 8,000m, and climbing all of them is taken into account the final word achievement of any mountaineer.
In addition to being much more technically tough to climb than Everest, K2 has notoriously fickle climate, and has solely been scaled by 425 folks since 1954 — together with round 20 ladies.
Greater than 6,000 folks have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the highest in 1953 — a few of them a number of occasions.
