Pakistan’s famous mountaineer Sajid Ali Sadpara, son of renowned high- altitude climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara, successfully scaled the world’s eighth highest peak — Mount Manaslu — in Nepal without the aid of supplementary oxygen.
Sajid has become the first Pakistani to climb the ‘True Summit’ of Manaslu. Mount Manaslu is 8,163 metres above sea level. It is in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal.
The name Manaslu means “mountain of the spirit”. Before Sajid achieved the feat, his expedition reportedly avoided an avalanche which struck below C-4. He had crossed 8,000m at this time. Sajid has already summited K2 (8,611m) twice.
The mountaineer has also climbed the peaks of Gasherbrum-I (8,080m) and Gasherbrum-II (8,035m) without additional oxygen.
Manaslu’s “true summit” became the centre of attention when last year renowned Nepali climber MingmaG claimed that all previous summits done at the peak were not the actual summit and there’s still distance left from the actual top of the mountain.
Following Mingma’s revelation, several climbers aiming for different records had announced to re-summit Manasluincluding Pakistan’s Sirbaz Ali and Shehroze Kashif.
