By Maria Kari The writer is a law student based in Canada and tweets at @mariakari1414 In 1856, when Mount Everest was definitively identified as the world’s highest mountain, what began was a series of early Everest expeditions. And while the first female ascent of the mountain was in 1975 by Japanese mountain-climber Junko Tabei […]
By: Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, came to the capital along with her brother, who is also her trainer and coach, to share her feelings about conquering the 8,848 metres peak with media. “We have achieved this landmark 60 years after the Everest was first scaled,” Mirza […]
ISLAMABAD: The news about the first Pakistani woman summiting Mount Everest on Sunday morning spread like a wildfire. Text messages congratulating every Pakistani started doing the rounds only half an hour after Samina Baig reached the top of the highest peak in the world at around 7:30am. And by the afternoon, almost everyone was updating […]
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