Mountaineers make historic achievement in scaling mighty K - 2 in winters
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ISLAMABAD – Over 60 mountaineers have joined on Pakistan’s mighty K2, contesting to conquer one of the world’s last major climbing challenges.
Climbing the summit in winter, four teams with dozens of climbers and sherpas between them have begun climbing the savage mountain.
In a pursuit toward a historic summit, four of the Nepali Sherpas broke the previous record during winters of climbing as high as 26,000 feet.
The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) said the maximum height achieved by any mountaineers in winters was 25,320 feet.
ACP Secretary Karrar Haidri said tomorrow, four of the members including Nirmal Purja, Mingma David, Mingma Tenzi, and Mingma Gyalje will leave Camp 4 and try for a summit push if the weather remains fine, adding their fifth climbing partner Sona Sherpa turned back.
Leader of the Sherpa, Purja said combined effort made some remarkable progress on Friday afternoon.
