There is nothing like an adventure in the mountains surrounded by the nature’s giants
It was the end of July 2020 and Covid-19 engulfed the earth. Lockdowns, travel restrictions and closure of public places were the order of the day. Grown bored with working from home in Lahore, I decided to head to my second home, in an Islamabad suburb.
I went for long walks in the Bani Gala hillocks and watched movies. One of those was
Vertical Limit, a K-2 survival thriller. Watching the movie made me wonder about the depth of human determination. Exhilarated, I dropped a line to my motorbike pals on a social group about undertaking a trek in the north, if travel restrictions were lifted.
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Nepali climbers who made history at the weekend by becoming the first to summit the world s second-highest mountain in winter told on Wednesday how they battled hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures to achieve the record.
The triumphant 10-man team was plucked from Base Camp on the 8,611-metre K2 known as the “savage mountain” by a Pakistan Army helicopter and flown to the Shigar Valley, a gateway to the mighty Karakoram range.
Wearing traditional woollen hats and festooned with garlands, the climbers were received as heroes on the first leg of their journey back home.
“This winter we came here with the hope that we were going to make this happen,” said Nirmal Purja, one of the leading members of the team and a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier.
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