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After Shehroze Kashif, Sirbaz Khan scales Mount Everest

After Shehroze Kashif, Sirbaz Khan scales Mount Everest
May 12, 2021

KATHMANDU (92 News) – Pakistani young mountaineer Sirbaz Khan, who became the first Pakistani to conquer the Annapurna peak, has achieved another feat by scaling Mount Everest – the tallest peak in the world.

Khan has achieved the milestone a day after the country’s youngest hiker Shehroze Kashif reached the summit on Tuesday.

With this achievement, Sirbaz Khan has completed 7 out of 14 eight-thousanders peak thus far. Hailing from Aliabad town of Pakistan’s north, he has scaled two peaks during the last 26 days and holds that title as well.

The 34-year-old has already scaled Nanga Parbat in 2017, Pakistan’s savage mountain K2 in 2018, and Broad Peak in 2019, followed by Lhotse and Manaslu, bagging the Annapurna was his sixth 8,000er in just four years that he started climbing.

On Tuesday, Shehroz Kashif made the history by scaling Mount Everest on Tuesday. Shehroz Kashif, 19, has become the youngest Pakistani conquering the 8,848 metres Mount Everest. He had started his journey on April 6.

Shehroz has dedicated his success to Ali Sadpara. At the age of 17, he had hoisted the national flag on Broad Peak.