Pakistani Sirbaz Ali climbed Mount Everest without artificial oxygen

Pakistani top mountaineer Sirbaz Ali Khan successfully climbed Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, without supplementary oxygen. He became the second Pakistani to climb Everest without bottled artificial oxygen when he reached the summit earlier today.

Sirbaz reached Mount Everest’s summit around 12:30 p.m. (Pakistan Standard Time). He had previously climbed Mount Everest in 2021 but with artificial oxygen. Sajid Sadpara was the first Pakistani to climb Mount Everest in May 2023 without artificial oxygen.

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Sirbaz hails from Hunza and has become the first Pakistani to climb 11 out of 14 peaks without artificial oxygen support. All these peaks are higher than 8,000 meters. In total, he has climbed 13 peaks above 8,000 meters in height.

Only Annapurna and Kangchenjunga peaks were among those 13 peaks that Sirbaz climbed with oxygen support. Sirbaz had to postpone his plans to climb Shishapangma, his fourteen and last peak above 8,000 meters height earlier this year.

Because Chinese officials would not allow him to climb on Shishapangma mountain during this season. Sirbaz Ali became the “Imagine Nepal 2024 Everest Expedition” team member with eighteen Sherpas and fourteen foreign climbers.

Sherpa refers to a member of the Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet, known for their skill in mountaineering. Hence, Sirbaz Ali has made Pakistani citizens proud by waving the national flag at Mount Everest, which he successfully climbed without using extra bottled oxygen.

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He is a thirty-four-year-old Pakistani who has also marked Pakistan’s imprint on several top critical 13 peaks. He climbed the second-highest mountain peak in the world, the K-2 8,611 meter peak in 2018. The ninth-highest peak, Nanga Parbat 8,125 meter peak he crossed in 2017.

Sirbaz climbed the world’s fourth-toughest peak, Mount Lhotse at 8,516-metre, and Broad Peak at 8,516-metre in 2019. He also climbed Mount Manaslu at 8,163-metre in the same year. He successfully claimed Annapurna Peak, Mount Everest (with artificial oxygen), and Gasherbrum-II in 2021.

However, he climbed Kanchenjunga and Gasherbrum-I in 2022 while he crossed the world’s sixth highest peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet in 2203.