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Shehroze Kashif becomes youngest climber to summit Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat summit is Kashif's eighth 8-thousander summit
Shehrize Kashif becomes youngest to summit Nanga Parbat.
Source: Instagram
Shehrize Kashif becomes youngest to summit Nanga Parbat. Source: Instagram

Pakistan’s Shehroze Kashif has become the youngest mountaineer to summit Nanga Parbat - his eighth time conquering a peak higher than 8,000 metres.

Nanga Parbat is also known as the Killer Mountain due to its astonshingly high summit attempts to death ratio. Every seventh attempt to conquer the mountain results in death, according to 8000ers.com.

It is the ninth highest peak in the world and the second highest in Pakistan. At 8,126 metres, it is among the 14 summits that are higher than 8,000 metres.

Kashif’s team shared the update on his Instagram account.

He is accompanied by Fazal Ali, another experienced climber who hails from Shimshal, located on Pakistan’s northern tip. Fazal has the distinction of summiting K2 three times. He has been part of multiple expeditions of other peaks in the Karakoram range.

Kashif is also the youngest Pakistani mountaineer to have ascended seven 8,000+ peaks including Mt Everest, Mt Makalu, Mt Lhotse and Mt Mansalu that are part of the Himalayas in Nepal and bordering Tibet, K2 and Broad Peak of the Karakoram in Pakistan, and Mt Kangchenjunga, which is also part of the Himalayas on the Nepal’s Indian border side.

Kashif is aspiring to the become the world’s youngest climber to summit all fourteen peaks higher than 8,000 metres.

He has on several occasions spoken about the lack of support and financing from public and private sectors as mountaineering requires expensive equipment and training.

He has now resorted to crowdfunding and shared the details of his gofundme page on his Instagram account.

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