Islamabad:
The famous Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan achieved another milestone in the history of climbing to great altitude while successfully closed the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga, on Sunday morning.
Khan reached the top of the Kangchenjunga of 8,586 meters high at 5 am which makes this feat is extraordinary is that he achieved it without the use of supplementary oxygen, a decisive moment in the legist’s legacy of Pakistan. With this last achievement, Sirbaz Khan becomes the first Pakistani, and one of the few elite mountaineers worldwide, to accumulate the 14 peaks of more than 8,000 meters, known as the ‘eight thousand’, without complementary support of oxygen.
Evrest has previously climbed, 8,848 m; K2, 8,611m; Lhotse, 8,516 m; Makalu, 8,485m; Cho Oyu, 8,188 m; Dhaulagiri, 8,167 m; Manaslu, 8,163 m; Nanga Parbat, 8,126m; Annapurna I, 8,091m; Gasherbrum I, 8,080 m; Broad Peak, 8,051 m; Gasherbrum II, 8,035m; and Shishapangma, 8,027m.
The Khan Sirbaz trip to this historic milestone covered more than a decade. His achievement on Sunday not only consolidated his place among the best mountaineers of all time, but also brings an immense pride to the people of Pakistan.
Khan comes from Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). His achievement was made in the spirit of the Pure Alpine climb: minimum equipment, without fixed ropes or camps established by Sherpas and without oxygen support.
“Sirbaz Khan has proud to the entire nation. Completing the 14 thousand eight thousand without oxygen is a weird and heroic achievement. It is a symbol of Pakistani resistance, the ability and courage of the highest peaks in the world,” said Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, in a congressman message to Khan.
