Pakistan Army helicopters airlifted two stranded Russian climbers, a day after an avalanche hit a group of five mountaineers who were trying to scale the sixth-highest mountain in Pakistan.
The 18-year-old German resident was part of a trio who had taken the mountain railway up the Zugspitze late Sunday afternoon and proceeded to ascend to the summit, an elevation gain of approximately 80 meters from a popular terrace utilised by numerous visitors.
Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven years, 10 months and six days
Islamabad: Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to climb seven highest peaks in seven continents, media reported on Sunday.Baig, 23, has completed the challenge of climbing seven of the highest mountains around the world,
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