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Chinese mountaineer dies while descending K2 summit

Published 13 Aug, 2025 10:20pm

A Chinese mountaineer, Guan Jing, died on Tuesday night after being hit by falling rocks while descending from the...

Climbers retrieve porter's body a year after K2 summit

Published 07 Aug, 2024 07:48am

KHAPLU: Climbers recovered the body of a Pakistani porter from K2 mountain, a climbing federation confirmed Tuesday,...

Mashreq embarks on K2 cleanup mission

Published 07 Aug, 2024 07:35am

KARACHI: Mashreq, under its global Climb2Change initiative, has conducted clean-up and environmental conservation...

K2 Jubilee Expedition commences

Published 26 Jun, 2024 03:15am

SKARDU: The K2 Jubilee Expedition, comprising a team of Pakistani and Italian women climbers, commenced with an...

Pakistani women to hoist flag of Pakistan on K2 this year

Published 14 May, 2024 05:18am

ISLAMABAD: The year 2024 is marked as the Platinum Jubilee of the first ascent of K2 for its 70th anniversary of the...

Summit of 14 ‘super peaks’: Norwegian woman, Nepali guide set record

Published 28 Jul, 2023 03:03am

ISLAMABAD: A Norwegian woman and her Nepali guide set the record Thursday for the fastest summit of all 14 of the...

Naila Kiani becomes first Pak woman to summit 3 peaks

Published 20 Aug, 2022 03:41am

LAHORE: The Dubai-based banker by profession and mother of two, Naila Kiani became the first Pakistani female ...

Norwegian woman climber on track to break ‘super peaks’ record

Published 11 Aug, 2022 04:53pm

ISLAMABAD: Norwegian climber Kristin Harila has just three mountains left in her bid to climb the world’s 14 “super...

Norwegian woman summits ninth mountain in pursuit of ‘super peaks’ record

Published 29 Jul, 2022 05:38pm

ISLAMABAD: A Norwegian woman remains on course to climb the world’s 14 “super peaks” in the shortest time ever, her...

PAEC moves PD to press NTDC to sign PPA with K-2

Updated 18 Mar, 2022 05:49am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has approached Power Division to press National Transmission and...

Pakistan teen climber confronts mortality and history on K2 summit

Published 04 Dec, 2021 11:07am

LAHORE: Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif faced many dangers climbing the planet's tallest peaks, but his...

Mountaineer Shehroze Kashif achieves another milestone

Updated 26 Sep, 2021 12:54pm

ISLAMABAD: In another major achievement, Shehroze Kashif, 19, has become the youngest Pakistani to reach the summit...

A ‘sense of achievement’ for young Shehroze Kashif, who summited K2

Published 02 Aug, 2021 12:15pm

The youngest Pakistani to scale both K2 and Mount Everest started climbing when he was just 11 and never looked back

K2 humbled by Kashif

Published 31 Jul, 2021 04:05am

EDITORIAL: Nineteen-year-old Pakistani mountaineer, Shehroze Kashif, is now the youngest person to summit K2, the...

MCB Bank-sponsored team successfully ascended K2 summit

Published 30 Jul, 2021 05:10am

LAHORE: An MCB Bank sponsored team of 5 porters from the Hushe region, an under developed and poverty stricken area...

Kashif youngest person to summit K2

Published 28 Jul, 2021 04:30am

ISLAMABAD: A 19-year-old Pakistani has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world’s second highest...

Bodies of Sadpara, two other climbers traced: Minister

Published 27 Jul, 2021 02:50am

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Information Minister Fatehullah Khan on Monday said the bodies of world fame mountaineer...

International team arrives to attempt K2, Broad Peak summits

Published 28 Jun, 2021 04:38am

ISLAMABAD: An international mountaineering outfit, comprising 20 climbers have arrived in Pakistan to summit K2...

K-2 nuclear plant successfully synchronized with National Grid

Updated 19 Mar, 2021 03:00pm

Back in December, the CNNC started fuel-loading at the Karachi 2 reactor as part of the process to connect it to the grid.

GB cabinet names Muhammad Ali Sadpara for civil award

Updated 23 Feb, 2021 07:16pm

The members of the GB cabinet paid rich tributes to Sadpara and prayed for him.
The GB cabinet also given green-signal for the establishment of Muhammad Ali Sadpara Institute of Adventure Sports Mountaineering and Climbing, to honor his achievement.

Adieu Ali Sadpara

Published 23 Feb, 2021 05:20am

EDITORIAL: The deeply saddening news came last Thursday that the search for Pakistan’s celebrated mountaineer...

Passion, perseverance and determination of Sadpara, Snorri and Mohr will always be remembered: FO

Published 19 Feb, 2021 04:25pm

The three climbers who went missing on February 5 were officially declared dead on Thursday.
It is believed the group reached the summit but encountered a problem on the way down.

A press conference to discuss missing mounters situation will be held today

Published 15 Feb, 2021 10:49am

The search mission for the missing mountaineers has said that the satellite images have turned out to be a sleeping bag, torn tents or sleeping pads, none of which belong to the climbers.
Muhammad Ali Sadpara, Juan Pablo Mohr and John Snorri Sigurjonsson have been missing since February 5.

News of safe return of Sadpra fake: DC

Published 15 Feb, 2021 04:53am

GILGIT: Deputy Commissioner Shigar District Azeemullah on Sunday said news of safe return of Muhammad Ali Sadpra was...

Bad weather halts search for missing climbers on K2

Published 11 Feb, 2021 04:34am

ISLAMABAD: Hopes faded Wednesday for three climbers lost on brutal K2 as bad weather halted search operations on the...

Qureshi assures Chilean FM that all possible efforts are being taken to trace missing K2 climbers

Published 10 Feb, 2021 10:16am

Qureshi briefed his Chilean counterpart of efforts being made by Pakistan to locate them, including a number of search flights by Pakistan Army Aviation helicopters amid challenging weather conditions.
Sadpara, Snorri and Mohr lost contact with the base camp on Friday and were reported missing on Saturday.

FM assures Chilean counterpart of Pakistan's all possible efforts to trace missing mountaineers

Published 09 Feb, 2021 11:42pm

During the call, the two Foreign Ministers also discussed bilateral relations and agreed to remain engaged in future both on bilateral and multilateral fora.

My father is a survivor, I am still hopeful of his return: Sajid Ali

Updated 09 Feb, 2021 05:27pm

Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and JP Mohr from Chile lost contact with the base camp on Friday and were reported missing on Saturday after their support team stopped receiving communications from them. "It has been four days today. No one has seen my father since that day. He is up there somewhere, 8,000-feet high," says Sajid Ali.

Three climbers on K2 feared dead, three days after they went missing

Published 09 Feb, 2021 04:43am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani military helicopters continued to search for three missing climbers on the world’s second...

Fears grow for missing climbers on K2

Published 08 Feb, 2021 03:46am

ISLAMABAD: Fears are growing for three climbers missing while attempting to summit the world's second-highest...

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