First Pakistani Female Scales Mt Everest

Mirza Ali and Samina Baig on way to Everest Top [Photo]

It was great day for a sibling from Shimshal village in Hunza valley, Pakistan to step on the top of the world when they scaled the 8,848 metres high Mt Everest. Samina Baig and Mirza Ali are the only Pakistani to carry Pakistan´s National Flag to Mt. Everest on the 60th anniversary of its first ascent back in 1953.

The duo were part of 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides to scale the Everest this month. The group also included a Saudi woman who became the first Saudi woman to have scaled Mt Everest.

As for the Mirza Ali (29) and Samina Baig (21), Miss Baig became the first Pakistan woman to step on the Everest top. While her brother Mirza Ali becomes the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain.

It may be added that the group also included twin sisters Tashi and Nugshi from India who also scaled the Everest with Baig and Ali, beside females from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Palestine.

Samina with twin Indian sisters atop Everest

Mirza (29 years) has been climbing for last 12 years and works as a mountain guide, expedition leader and trainer in the Karakorum, Himalaya and  Hindukush. Samina Baig (22 years) is a student of arts and has been climbing since four years. Her goal is to turn her love for mountaineering into her profession and work as a tour leader and mountain guide in the near future. Samina is the first Pakistani female to to have attempted any 8,000er mountain.

Earlier Everest had been scaled by two Pakistani mountaineers: Mr. Nazir Sabir & Mr. Hassan Sadpara.

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