Climbing wall named after Muhammad Ali Sadpara inaugurated
National
March 12, 2021
PESHAWAR: Chief Secretary Kazim Niaz on Thursday formally inaugurated the first climbing wall named after international climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara at Peshawar Sports Complex, with a total cost of Rs10 million under the Prime Minister 1,000 Playground Facilities Project.
The climbing wall has been named after national hero Muhammad Ali Sadpara, a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer. He was part of the team (which included Italian alpinist Simone Moro) that successfully completed the first-ever winter ascent to the summit of Nanga Parbat in 2016.
Sadpara was notable for having successfully climbed a grand 8000 throughout his career—four of which he had ascended in a single calendar year. Sadpara, along with his 21-year-old son Sajid (who had also climbed K2 in 2019), teamed up with Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto for a joint-ascent of K2, and left the highest camp on the evening of Feb 4, 2021.