Pakistani female mountaineer Samina Baig makes history
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Internationally acclaimed Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig has become the country’s first woman to scale the world’s second highest mountain K2 on Friday morning.
She led the Seven climbers team from Gilgit Baltistan and successfully summited K2 this morning, the summiteers including Eid Muhammad, Bulbul Karim, Ahmed Baig, Rizwan Dad, Waqar Ali and Akber Hussain Sadpara.
K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest.
Hails from Gilgit-Baltistan, Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, in 2013 at the age of 22.
