Sajid Sadpara marks history by conquering Everest without oxygen

Sajid Ali Sadpara created history for Pakistan as he became the first mountaineer from the country to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, without the help of high-altitude porters and supplemental oxygen.

Sadpara, son of the late legendary climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara, summited the 8848-metre peak situated in Nepal on Sunday in Alpine style – the type of ascent, where climbers are not supported by local porters from base camp to the summit.

It was his fifth such summit as he has already ascended K2 (8,611m), Gasherbrum-I (8,080m) and Gasherbrum-II (8,035m), in Pakistan and Manaslu (8,163m) in Nepal without supplemental oxygen.

Sadapara aims to climb all 14 eight-thousander mountains without supplemental oxygen.

His father Ali Sadpara lost his life along with Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohrra while attempting to summit the K2 during the winter season in 2021.

Earlier, another Pakistani climber Naila Kiani successfully reached the peak of Mount Everest on Sunday, becoming only the second female mountaineer from the country to do so.

Naila, a Dubai-based Banker by profession and a mother of two, also became the first Pakistani woman to scale five peaks above 8000 meters.

Last month, she had scaled Annapurna Mountain (8,091 metres) – the 10th highest peak in the world also located in Nepal – to become the first female from the country to do so.

She also ascended Gasherbrum-II (8,035m) in 2021 and climbed Gasherbrum-I (8,068m) and the world’s second-highest peak K2 in July 2022.

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