By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani mountaineer Sajid Ali Sadpara has accomplished the impressive feat of scaling Mount Annapurna, the 10th highest peak in the world, without the use of supplementary oxygen, officials from mountaineering clubs said on Saturday.
Mount Annapurna, located in Nepal and standing at a height of 8,091 meters above sea level, is widely known to be a challenging climb, having claimed the lives of over 60 climbers who attempted to ascend it.
Sadpara, son of the late renowned high-altitude mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara, has already summited K2 (8,611 meters) twice, as well as Nepal’s Manaslu (8,163 meters). In addition, the mountaineer has also successfully climbed Gasherbrum-I (8,080 meters) and Gasherbrum-II (8,035 meters) without supplementary oxygen.
Karrar Haidri, the general-secretary for the Alpine Club of Pakistan, extended his congratulations to Sadpara and the Seven Summit Treks team for successfully reaching the Annapurna summit, calling it a joyous moment.
“This was a challenging undertaking, as Sajid was leading and made the ascent despite the harsh weather. Sajid is a young mountaineer whose dream is to scale all 14 peaks of the world, which was also an incomplete dream of his father,” Haidri said.
Nepalese mountaineer Chhang Dawa Sherpa, who is also the expedition director for the Seven Summit Trek, also congratulated Sadpara on his 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,” Sherpa wrote on Twitter.
In February 2021, Sadpara’s father Muhammad Ali, along with Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr, went missing while attempting to scale K2 during the winter. The trio was last seen around 10am on February 5, 2021, at the Bottleneck, which is known to be the most challenging part of the climb, a steep and narrow gully only 300 meters from the peak’s 8,611-meter-high summit.
It is believed that Ali and his expedition members had reached the summit, but they encountered a problem on their descent.
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