Famend mountaineer Sirbaz Khan, who hails from Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, has set off on an expedition to scale Gashebrum-I at 8,080 metres (26,510 ft).
The famous climber is eyeing his 12th eight-thousander as he has beforehand scaled 11 out of 14 peaks above 8000 meters on the earth.
He’s the Pakistani to have climbed 11 of the 14 peaks above 8000 meters, together with the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, and the second highest peak K2.
In 2019, he turned the primary Pakistani to summit Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain at 8,516m in Nepal, with out the usage of supplementary oxygen.
Furthermore, he summited the 8,125-metre-high Nanga Parbat in 2017, 8,611-metre-high Ok-2 in 2018 and Broad Peak, which has a top of 8,163 metres in 2019. Earlier this 12 months, he climbed the 8,091-metre-high Anapurna mountain, 8,848-metre-high Everest and eight,035-metre-high Gasherbrum II.
On 4 of those expeditions, he had been accompanied by late Muhammad Ali Sadpara.
Sirbaz is aiming to turn out to be the primary Pakistani to climb all 14 of the world’s highest peaks.
