KHAPLU, Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistani mountaineer Sajid Ali Sadpara has successfully summited Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest peak, without supplementary oxygen, officials of Pakistani mountaineering clubs said on Saturday.
At a height of 8,091 meters above the sea level, Mount Annapurna in Nepal is widely considered to be a tough climb and has claimed the lives of more than 60 climbers striving to make an ascent.
Sadpara, the son of Pakistan’s late iconic high-altitude mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara, has already summited K2 (8,611 meters) twice as well as Nepal’s Manaslu (8,163 meters). The mountaineer has also successfully climbed Gasherbrum-I (8,080 meters) and Gasherbrum-II (8,035 meters) without supplementary oxygen.
Karrar Haidri, general-secretary for the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said congratulated Sadpara and the Seven Summit Treks team for successfully reaching the Annapurna summit.
“This is a happy [moment] that Sajid Ali Sadpara has summited one of the most dangerous peaks of the world, the tenth highest [mountain of the world],” Haidri told Arab News.
“This was a hard movement because he was leading and summited the peak in spite of the harsh weather. Sajid is a young mountaineer and his dream is to scale all 14 peaks of the world, which is an incomplete dream of his father.”
Nepalese mountaineer Chhang Dawa Sherpa, who is also the expedition director for the Seven Summit Trek, also congratulated Sadpara on the successful ascent.
“Wake up Pakistan!!! Sajid Ali Sadpara, a son of legend Ali Sadpara, [successfully] reached the top of Mt. Annapurna this afternoon, unsupported and without using supplementary O2, as a part of @sst8848 Annapurna Exped,” he wrote on Twitter.
In February 2021, Sadpara’s father Muhammad Ali, Iceland’s John Snorri, and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr went missing while attempting to scale the world’s most dangerous peak in winter. They were last sighted at around 10am on February 5, 2021 at what is considered the most difficult part of the climb: the Bottleneck, a steep and narrow gully just 300 meters shy of the 8,611-meter-high K2.
Ali and his expedition members were making their second attempt at climbing K2 during the winter. It is believed the group had reached the summit but encountered a problem on the way down.
In January 2021, a team of 10 Nepali climbers had made history by becoming the first to ever scale K2 in winter.
