Pakistani climbers open new route on the seven-thousander Tirich Mir in the Hindu Kush
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…