Shehroze Kashif (Credit:Iamthanes CC)
Harun Nasrullah
A Pakistani mountaineer became the youngest person to climb the three of the world’s tallest peaks after scaling “Kunchenjunga” peak on May 5.
Shehroze Kashif, 20, broke the record when he summited the 8,586-metre (28,196-foot) peak in Nepal on May 5, announced the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
Kashif, who has already scaled the world’s two tallest mountains – Mount Everest and K2 – has now become the youngest Pakistani to scale five peaks higher than 8,000 meters.
In May last year, Kashif scaled Mount Everest, making him the youngest Pakistani climber to reach the summit.
Two months later, in July, he scaled K2, again making him the youngest-ever Pakistani to climb the world’s second tallest peak.
Kashif, who hails from Lahore in northern Pakistan, is only the sixth Pakistani to scale Mount Everest. The only woman climber who achieved the feat in 2013 is Samina Baig.
Kashif, the son of a local businessman, started climbing at age 11 and gradually scaled peaks ranging from 3,000 metres to 8,000 metres before scaling Mt. Everest and K2.
In 2013, he scaled the 3,885-meter (12,746-foot) Makra Peak, situated in Pakistan’s northwestern Mansehra district, while just 11 years old.His 2019 expedition to the 8,047-meter (26.401-foot) Broad Peak, located in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, earned him the title “The Broad Boy.”
