Mountaineers of Gilgit Baltistan

Samina Baig 

Samina Baig, from Hunza valley, is the first pleased Pakistani lady to climb Mount-Everest when she was almost 21 years old. She said “It was my dream to raise the Pakistani flag on Mount Everest and I am extremely happy. I can’t describe my feelings in words. It was the most memorable day of my life.” 

She was brought into the world on 19^th September 1990 in Gilgit Baltistan. She is the young lady who began ascending mountains at the age of 4. Samina got inspiration from her brother Mirza Ali who was additionally a Mountaineer and started training Samina when she was 15. Since 2009, she began her profession as a Mountaineer and trains individuals who are enthusiastic about this field. Moreover, She was first to climb the peak Chashkin Sar in 2010 that was then renamed as Samina Peak in order to appreciate her. She reached the summit of Koh-e-Brobar (Mount Equality) in 2011. In 2014,at the age of 24, she captured all the seven summits in seven continents. It takes years to climb all these mountains, but she took challenge to climb in just 8 months.

She has been employed as a mountain guide and expedition leader in the Hindukush and Karakoram peaks. She is also UNDP National Goodwill Ambassador of Pakistan. She has also received Award of Brilliance in the field of Athletics at the first Hum Women Leaders Awards 2020. In 2021, she began her excursion towards K2 along with her colleagues. She began moving, in an exceptionally youthful age and accomplished a name in light of her excitement.

Hassan Sadpara

Hassan Sadpara, from Skardu valley is the person climbed the world's most noteworthy peak, Mount-Everest. After his fruitful highest point of Mount Everest, he said in an interview that he could summit all the top 14 mountain peaks in case he were supported and had mentioned by the Pakistan government or worldwide partnerships in this respect. His other dream was to open a mountaineering school in his city with the goal that he and others like him can move their insight to youth from around the universe of Execution.

He was born in April 1963 in a small village near Skardu, Gilgit Baltistan. He was the subsequent man, after Nisar Husain (belongs to Sadpara town, Baltistan) to have summited all the six of 8000m peaks of Pakistan. He started his profession without any preparation, with a little assets, that he could manage to afford.

In 2008, he was granted by the Government, the President's Pride of Performance. On 14 August 2019, Legislature of Pakistan, after his death, granted him the President's Pride of Execution for his various striking accomplishments, that incorporate him being the primary Pakistani to have scaled six eight-thousanders, which additionally remember the most noteworthy top for the world, Mount Everest. The honors service was hung on 23 March 2020.   

He likewise worked as a free consultant for the new climbers. Dissimilar to other exceptional climbers, at times supported by global organizations, particularly those from Western nations, Hassan was the one who had climbed K2 on 27 July 2004, Nanga Parbat on 2 July 1999, Gasherbrum I in 2006, Wide Top in 2007, Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Mount Everest on 11 May 2011.  

In October 2016, he began getting sick and was determined to have the blood cancer. He was treated for many other diseases other than cancer. Hassan Sadpara died on 21st November 2016 in the Hospital at Rawalpindi and was buried in Skardu.