On Friday morning, Pakistani Woman Naira Kiani from Dubai became the first Pakistani woman to summit Gasherbrum 1, the world’s 11th highest mountain at 8,080 meters. At around 7:45 am Pakistan time, Naira Climbed G-1.
Naila is the first woman from Pakistan to summit both K2 and Gasherbrum 1 in a 20-day span.
She was the second person to climb K2 on the same day after Samian Baig, the first female Pakistani to do so.
Before climbing 8611m, K2, the second-tallest peak in the world, last month, Naila, a mother of two, had reached the top of 8034m, Gasherbrum-1, the world’s 13th-highest mountain, in 2021.
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