Mountaineering | MCQs

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K-2 is Also Known As Godwin Austin

K2 mountain was first measured by Godwin Austen in 1856.

Godwin Austen was an English topographer (surveyor) 

'K' standing for Karakoram.

Mount K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth.

 after the world's highest peak Mount Everest.

Mount K2 is part of the Karakorum Range located on the border of Pakistan and China.

K2 height 8,611 meters

It is located on the China–Pakistan border between Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.

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Nazir Sabir is a Pakistani mountaineer.

He was born in Hunza.

he climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan.

He also climbed:

 the world's second-highest mountain K2 in 1981

Gasherbrum II 8035m, Broad Peak 8050m in 1982

and Gasherbrum I 8068m in 1992.

Awards: Pride of Performance

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Shehroze Kashif climbed Kangchenjunga at age 20 in: May 2022

Shehroze Kashif belongs: Lahore

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Shehroze Kashif has scaled Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Manaslu and the Broad Peak, and the Nanga Parbat was his eighth summit of an 8-thousander.

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Samina Baig summited the mighty K2 along with her team members and became the first ever Pakistani woman to scale the K2 on 22 July 2022.

Samina Baig belongs to Gilgit Valley

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Naila Kiani with Ali Raza Sadpara and Sirbaz Khan at the summit of Gasherbrum II (G2) (8035m) in august 2021.

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Pakistan’s Saba Haleem becomes first woman ‘in the world’ to climb Gondogoro Peak

Gondogoro Pass (گوندوگرو‎) is a 5585 meter high mountain pass in the Baltistan region

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Sirbaz Khan Mountaineer became the first Pakistani to climb nine of the world’s highest 14 peaks, each of which has a height of more than 8,000 meters