Sajid Ali Sadpara, a Pakistani mountaineer, created history on Monday by becoming the first mountaineer from his country to reach the summit of Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world.
The climber was stuck in the afternoon by a huge avalanche around C4, according to Sadpara’s team, who confirmed that he reached the summit of Manaslu before that.
Manaslu’s “real summit” gained notoriety when renowned Nepali climber MingmaG asserted that all previous summit attempts at the peak were not the true summit and that there was still a distance to travel before reaching the mountain’s peak.
Following Mingma’s confession, a number of climbers—among them Pakistani climbers Sirbaz Ali and Shehroze Kashif—aiming for various records—announced that they would attempt to summit Manaslu again.
The climbers who wanted to reach a real summit this season included Sajid Ali Sadpara, the late Ali Sadpara’s son.
Sajid’s successful ascent of Mt. Manaslu, 8,163 metres, without the use of extra oxygen was confirmed by his team on Monday afternoon.
When the massive avalanche slammed the climbers on route C-4, forcing many other climbers to abandon their plans, Sajid had already crossed 8,000 metres and was moving on, according to the expedition management business that Sajid works for.
