According to the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), mountaineer Naila Kiani became the first female Pakistani summitee of 11 8,000-meter peaks on Sunday.
Kiani succeeded in reaching the top of Nepal’s Makalu Peak, which is 8,485 metres high and the fifth-tallest mountain in the world.
“Naila [Kiani] summits Makalu, becoming the first woman to summit 11 8,000-meter peaks in Pakistani history,” the ACP stated in a statement on Facebook this morning.
“She has now become the fastest Pakistani, male or female, to have climbed 11 8,000-meter peaks in less than three years,” the statement read, citing ACP Secretary Karrar Haidri.
Haidri added, “She is the first Pakistani woman to have summited this extremely tough mountain thanks to her extraordinary effort.
About nine thirty-five minutes later, at roughly nine thirty-five Nepalese hours, the ACP secretary reported that “after a challenging climb through the night, Naila has achieved another historic milestone by successfully summiting Makalu.”
According to the statement, “Naila is grateful for all the prayers and well wishes, and she gives special thanks to everyone.” “She also expresses gratitude to Sherpa Gelgen Dai from Imagine Nepal, who has helped Naila along the entire journey and made this accomplishment possible,” Haidri continued.
Kiani has accomplished many mountaineering firsts.
She became the first woman from Pakistan to summit Nepal’s 8,091-meter-tall Annapurna peak in April of last year. Annapurna is the world’s tenth-highest peak. She became the second Pakistani woman to reach the peak of Mount Everest the following month. Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
Kiani accomplished the remarkable achievement of being the first female Pakistani climber of Nanga Parbat, the 8,125-meter-tall peak that ranks ninth in the world, in July. She became the first female Pakistani climber of Broad Peak, the world’s 12th-highest mountain at 8,051 metres, in the same month.
A few months afterward, Kiani and Sirbaz Khan made history as the first Pakistani team to ascend Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth-highest peak located in Tibet at 8,201 metres above sea level.
“I am sharing my accomplishments to demonstrate that anyone, regardless of identity, can achieve their goals,” Kiani stated in a video that was just uploaded to ACP’s Facebook page.
In addition to being an amateur boxer, she also discussed her accomplishments as a mother of two toddlers and an aerospace engineer.
She urged on Pakistan’s prime minister and chief ministers to prioritise the education of females, highlighting that education was the key to her success.
