Mountaineer Samina Baig has completed an expedition where she skied to the last degree of the South Pole, according to her brother. Mahboob Ali told Dawn that she was part of an international expedition organised by Elite Exped, which departed from Pakistan on December 2. It reached Union Glacier on December 6 and she completed […]
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Body of missing US ski mountaineer found in Nepal
The body of top US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was retrieved from the Himalayas by a search team on Wednesday, two days after she disappeared on the slopes of Nepal’s Manaslu peak. Nelson slipped and went missing while skiing down the world’s eighth-highest mountain after a successful summit with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday. Morrison led the search […]
Family of late mountaineer John Snorri calls on President
ISLAMABAD: Family members of late Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjonsson called on President Dr Arif Alvi here on Wednesday. During a meeting at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the president expressed his condolence on the death of late mountaineer who died while attempting a K2 summit push during February 2021 along with Pakistani and Chilean mountain climbers, Ali Sadpara […]
12-year-old set to climb world’s 12th highest peak
Selena Khawaja, a 12-year-old Pakistani mountaineer has set out to climb the twelfth-highest mountain in the world, the Broad Peak. The father-daughter mountaineer duo has reached Skardu to attempt the summit. If successful, she will become the youngest person in the world to scale an 8,000-plus meter peak. Brimming with confidence, Selena said: “Insh Allah, […]