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Son Retrieves Body of Legendary After Everest, Pakistan’s

Ali Sadpara from K2 ‘Bottleneck’ Samina Baig Set to Conquer K2

that the climbers had summited K2 in Well-known Pakistani mountaineers
winter and were frozen to death due to Samina Baig and Sajid Sadpara, son of
a storm on their way back. legendary Ali Sadpara, were among
Sajid said that retrieving the bod- climbers expected to scale K2 — the
ies was challenging as they were at a world’s second tallest mountain — on
very “technical and dangerous” slope. Tuesday.
“I am securing bodies of fallen climb- Baig, the first Pakistani female
ers to a safe place and instant retrieval mountaineer to summit Mount Ever-
from above bottleneck is not possible est, is now determined to wave the
without endangering many lives,” he green flag on the 8,611-meter K2.
had said. She also holds the honor of
“I am thankful to the whole na- scaling the seven highest peaks in t h e
tion for their love and prayers. I re- world, known as the Seven Summits.
quest everyone at K2 not to share any Baig’s six-member expedition
photo/video of the bodies, as it’s very team has been sponsored by the Spe-
painful for all families and friends,” he cial Communication Organization,
further wrote. which is supervising the campaign Juan Pablo Mohr while attempting to
Maryam Nawaz Tests titled ‘SCO K2 Dream’. summit the peak in February.
Islamabad: Sajid Ali Sadpara, the less than a month before the Sadpara “K2 is definitely one of the tough- The trio had lost contact with
son of legendary Mohammad Ali Sad- expedition. Positive for Covid-19 est mountains in the world,” Baig told Base Camp on Feb 5 while attempt-
para, has retrieved the bodies of three Sajid, who was accompanying the Arab News in an interview ahead of ing an unprecedented winter ascent
missing climbers including his father, three, had to abandon his summit bid I s l a ma b ad: leaving for the climb. “Many people without supplemental oxygen. K2,
who went missing while attempting after his oxygen regulator malfunc- Pakistan Muslim have lost their lives on its slopes. Most nicknamed the ‘Killer Mountain’, had
to summit K2 in February this year, tioned and he returned to camp three. L e ague-Nawaz recently, we lost our colleague [Mu- never been scaled in winter until a
from ‘Bottleneck’ and secured them at Bad weather thwarted multiple at- (PML-N) Vice hammad] Ali [Sadpara] Bhai. But this Nepalese team accomplished the feat
Camp-4. tempts to search for the missing climb- President Maryam is all part of life. It is part of the game.” less than a month before the Sadpara
According to Sajid and govern- ers, though the efforts continued. Nawaz tested posi- Everest Today, a mountain blog expedition.
ment officials, the bodies were spotted “Sajid Sadpara has fulfilled his tive for Covid-19 with over 44,000 followers on Twitter, Winds on K2’s peak can blow at
below the Bottleneck on Monday by duty as son of #AliSadpara. He has se- on Wednesday, said that Sajid and other climbers had more than 200 kilometersper hour
Sherpas. cured the body of our hero at C-4. He confirmed party spokesperson reached the Camp-4 of K2. (125 miles per hour) and tempera-
Ali Sadpara, along with two col- single-handedly not only retrieved the Mariyum Aurangzeb. The son of legendary Ali Sadpara tures drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius
leagues – John Snorri Sigurjónsson body from a dangerous slope but also “Pakistan Muslim League (N) had tweeted his picture a couple of (minus 76 Fahrenheit).
from Iceland, and Juan Pablo Mohr managed to bring it from bottleneck to Vice President Maryam Nawaz has days ago from Camp-2. With Pakistan’s borders open and
Prieto from Chile – were declared dead C-4. An Argentinian climber has only tested positive for Covid-19 after Sajid and Canadian filmmaker with few other places to go, this winter
on Feb 18, nearly two weeks after they helped him #K2Search,” an official which she has self-quarantined,” Au- Elia Saikaly are also searching for Sad- an unprecedented four teams totaling
went missing on the ‘Savage Mountain’. Twitter account of Team Ali Sadpara rangzeb said on Twitter. para, who went missing along with around 60 climbers have converged
The trio had lost contact with said on Wednesday. She further urged the public Iceland’s John Snorri and Chilean on the mountain, more than all previ-
Base Camp on Feb 5 while attempt- In another tweet, it said that Sajid to pray for the health of the PML-N ous expeditions put together.
ing an unprecedented winter ascent offered Fateha and recited verses of the leader and all others suffering from the ment at home. The PML-N vice presi- Unlike Mount Everest, which
without supplemental oxygen. K2 had Holy Qur’an as per the wishes of his disease. dent confirmed she was unwell, saying, has been topped by thousands of
never been scaled in winter until a mother. Later, Maryam took to Twitter as “I have fever, cough and flu symptoms climbers young and old, K2 is much
Nepalese team accomplished the feat Team Ali Sadpara further said well, saying she was receiving treat- but am being treated at home.” less travelled.

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