ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army’s retired colonel Abdul Jabbar, hailing from Punjab province, has become the fourth Pakistani climber to scale the Mount Everest successfully.
Colonel
Abdul Jabbar is the first
Pakistani from Punjab to achieve this milestone on Sunday.
The other three Pakistanis whole scaled the
Mount Everest before ex-Army ******r belong to Gilgit-Baltistan. They include Nazir Sabir, Hassan Sadpara and Samina Baig.
Nazir Sabir climbed
Mount Everest in 2000, becoming the first
Pakistani to do so. Hassan Sadapara who passed away in 2016 climbed the world’s highest peak 2011. Samina Baig the first
Pakistani woman to climb the mountain did so in 2013.
Abdul Jabbar, earlier, had climbed several highest mountains in Pakistan.
The 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) mountain is the world’s highest mountain is located in Nepal.
A**ther
Pakistani mountaineer Saad Mehmood, is also attempting to
scale the 8,848-metre high peak this season.
Moreover, three climbers died on the
Everest over the weekend and a**ther is missing, officials have confirmed Monday.
A**ther legendary Swiss climber, Ueli Steck died in late April while on an acclimatization climb, and 85-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan perished attempting to reclaim his title as the world´s oldest person to summit Everest.
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