Nazir Sabir

Nazir Sabir
Nazir Sabir, First from Right
Born
Raminj, Hunza[1]
NationalityPakistani

Nazir Sabir (Urdu: نذیر صابر ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8035m,[2] Broad Peak 8050m in 1982,[3] and Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) 8068m in 1992.[4] He became the first from Pakistan to have climbed Everest on 17 May 2000[5] as a team member on the Mountain Madness Everest Expedition led by Christine Boskoff from the United States that also included famed Everest climber Peter Habeler of Austria and eight Canadians.

  1. ^ "American Alpine Club honours Nazir Sabir". DAWN. 3 March 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2019. Born in Raminj village in the remote Chipursan Valley of Gojal, northern Hunza, Nazir Sabir started his climbing career with a Japanese expedition to the 7,284 metre high Passu peak in Gojal in 1974.
  2. ^ "Reinhold Messner at Gasherbrum II"
  3. ^ "Reinhold Messner at Broad Peak"
  4. ^ "The American Alpine Journal |year=1993 Page 252"
  5. ^ Pakistan's Hunza and Balti climbers