Due to the tragic avalanche on the eight-thousander Broad Peak, which claimed ten lives, all summit attempts on the neighboring 8,611-meter-high K2 were called off. Climbing, however, continued on other eight-thousanders in Pakistan. According to Russian mountaineering journalist Elena Laletina, on 1 August, the two Kazakhs Vassiliy Pivtsov and Mikhail Tarasov made the first ascent…
Long gone are the days when Pakistani mountaineers did nothing but haul equipment up mountains for foreign expeditions. They now rightly claim to be recognized and respected as mountaineers with their own sporting ambitions. This applies, for example, to Abdul Joshi. The 40-year-old led a five-member Pakistani team that reached the summit of the 7,708-meter-high…
The uprising of the Pakistani tourism industry has been at least partially successful. The regional government of the Gilgit-Baltistan province has slightly reduced the higher prices for climbing permits for Pakistan’s highest mountains that were decided for this summer. The Pakistan Association of Tour Operators (PATO) had filed a complaint against the original price increase….
