19-year-old Pakistani Shahrooz Kashif climbed Mount Everest

19-year-old Pakistani mountaineer Shahrooz Kashif has climbed the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

According to Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary Karar Haideri, Shahrooz Kashif climbed 8849 meters high Mount Everest at 5:02 am on Tuesday.

Shahruz Kashif left for Nepal on March 22 to hoist the Pakistani flag on Mount Everest.

Shahrooz Kashif was part of Nepal's Seven Summit Track, which is currently on an adventure to climb Mount Everest.

Seven Summit Track is the organization that a few months ago conducted the world's second-highest peak winter expedition in Pakistan and 10 Nepalese climbers set a record of climbing K2 in winter.

Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara was also part of the same Seven Summit Track, who lost his life trying to climb the K2 in the winter.

"19-year-old Shahrooz Kashif has become the youngest Pakistani to climb the world's highest peak," climber Chung Dawa Sherpa, head of Seven Summit Track and a record holder, told The Independent Urdu.

Dawa Sherpa said: "We congratulate Kashif on behalf of Seven Summit Track for winning this award."

Mount Everest has so far been climbed by the youngest climbers from three countries, including 13-year-old and 10-month-old Jordan Romero from the United States, 13-year-old and 11-month-old Malawat Purna from India and Temba Sherry, 16, of Nepal.

Now Pakistan has joined the list of countries whose youngest climber has climbed Mount Everest.

Karar Haidari, head of Alpine Club Pakistan, an organization that monitors various mountaineering expeditions in Pakistan, also confirmed that Shahrooz Kashif had climbed Mount Everest. ۔ '

According to Karar Haideri, Kashif hails from Lahore and started climbing at the age of 11.

He added: 'Kashif has been participating in mountaineering for 11 years. He first covered 3,000 meters, then 4,000 meters, and at the age of 17, more than 8,000 meters, which earned him the title of 'Broad Pack Boy'. In all, they have climbed eight small and large mountain peaks.

He said that according to Shahrooz Kashif's GPS tracker, he has started his return journey to base camp and now according to the tracker he is at an altitude of 7000 meters, which is near Camp No. 4 of Mount Everest.

Like K2, the route to Mount Everest is divided into four campuses, built at different heights.

"This is a moment of great pride for me and Shahrooz's mother," Kashif Salman, father of Shahrooz Kashif, told Independent Urdu correspondent Fatima Ali.

He said that the response received on social media and the way the people woke up till 5 in the morning and waited for the summit and kept track of Shahrooz, is very gratifying, but also of that. It is a pity that no one at the government level is aware that a 19-year-old boy has hoisted the Pakistani flag on the highest peak in the world.

Kashif Salman said, “There is a trend on social media in Nepal that the youngest Pakistani hoisted his country's flag on Mount Everest. 400 climbers came there and Shahrooz was in the first group but maybe no one at our government level knows that this child would be encouraged. "After arriving at the summit, they sent me the first message via GPS, 'Alhamdulillah Pakistan from Everest,'" he said. He named his campaign: "Pakistan on Everest 2021. It was a moment of great pride for me."

Shahrooz's father said: "He has been out since last morning, he has only rested for an hour and he is still walking and now he is on his way back and after reaching the base camp we will have regular contact with him. 

He added that no government or private assistance was provided to Shahrooz. Nepal's Seven Summit Company, which takes climbers, we paid them out of pocket. We tried our best at the government level but we were not provided any assistance. As far as the Karakoram Club is concerned, they have run Shahruz's entire social media campaign very well.

Mount Everest - the world's highest peak

Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world at 8850 meters (29,032 feet). The mountain stretches south and north along the Nepal-China border.

It is bordered by Nepal to the south and China to the north, and climbers from both sides take part in expeditions to the summit.

Mount Everest, also known as 'Sagar Mata' in Nepal, was first measured by Chinese surveyors in 1715 and was named 'Qomu Lingma'.