She is the first Pakistani woman to summit Mount Everest
Gilgit: Samina Baig has become the first ever Pakistani and youngest Muslim woman mountaineer to summit K2.
Baig, who hails from Shimshal village of Gilgit-Baltistan, and her Pakistani team of seven successfully summited the savage peak today (Friday).
Samina hoisted the national flag on the top of K2 at 7:42 am. While her team which includes Eid Mohammad, Bulbul Kareem, Ahmed Baig, Rizwan Dad, Waqar Ali and Akbar Sadpara also summit the K2 Mountain.
It is the world’s most dangerous and difficult summit. K2 is the world’s second highest peak, with a height of 8,611 metres above sea level.
She was also the first Pakistani woman to summit Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, in 2013.
The team consists of mountaineers Samina Baig, Eid Muhammad, Bulbul Kari, Ahmed Baig, Rizwan Dad, Waqar Ali, Akber Hussain Sadpara.
At 7:40am Samina became the first woman to reach on top of K2, in less than three hours, Pakistan have another female climber atop K2.
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