Staff Reporter Peshawar
The Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Kazim Niaz formally inaugurated the first climbing wall named after international climber and hero Shaheed Muhammad Ali Sadpara here at Peshawar Sports Complex with the total cost of Rs. 10 million under the Prime Minister 1000 Playground Facilities Project.
The climbing wall has been named after national hero Muhammad Ali Sadpara was a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer.
He was part of the team (which included Italian alpinist Simone Moro) that successfully completed the first-ever winter ascent to the summit of Nanga Parbat in 2016.
Muhammad Ali Sadpara. Sadpara was notable for having successfully climbed a grand 8000 throughout his career—four of which he had ascended in a single calendar year.
Sadpara, along with his 21-year-old son, Sajid (who had also climbed K2 in 2019), teamed up with Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto for a joint-ascent of K2, and left the highest camp on the evening of Feb 4, 2021.
Sajid was later forced to descend due an Oxygen regulator malfunction, leaving the other members of the team at the K2 Bottleneck, close to the summit.
Sigurjónsson and Prieto continued their ascent to K2’s summit, but did not return by night as planned, and were declared missing on Feb 5, 2021.
A rescue mission with two Pakistan Army helicopters was organized on Feb 6, 2021 to search for the team.
