Youngest Pakistani Mountaineer Shehroz Kashif Scales 10th Highest Peak ‘Annapurna I’

Youngest Pakistani Mountaineer Shehroz Kashif Scales 10th Highest Peak ‘Annapurna I’
Shehroz Kashif, the youngest 21-year-old Pakistani climber, has reached the world’s tenth-highest peak "Annapurna I".

"Annapurna I" is at a height of 8,091 meters. Earlier, he had set the record to ascend the world’s highest peak, ‘Mount Everest’ (8,849 meters), and the world’s second-highest mountain, K2.

Shehroz Kashif is the youngest mountaineer to achieve this feat. Furthermore,

Netizens and sports enthusiasts congratulated Shehroze Kashif for scaling the world’s tenth-highest mountain and making the nation proud.

On August 12, 2022, Shehroz Kashif became the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit 10 peaks of over 8,000m.

To break a record, the 20-year-old climber scaled the 8,080-meter Gasherbrum-1, the eleventh-tallest mountain in the world.

The climber had scaled each of Pakistan's five eight-thousanders. Just 12 days after British climber Adriana Brownlee set the previous record for being the youngest to accomplish the accomplishment, he exceeded it.

Shehroz Kashif's ascent of K2, the second-highest peak in the world, in July 2021 made him the youngest mountaineer to do it.

Shehroz Kashif, a Lahore resident, accomplished the incredible achievement around two months after becoming the SST Expedition 2021's youngest climber to conquer Mount Everest.

Shehroz Kashif is an enthusiastic climber who started off at the age of 11 by reaching the top of Makra Peak (3,885 m). Then, at the age of 12, he conquered Musa ka Massalah (4,080m) and Chembra Peak (4,600m).

Following this were K2 Gondogoro La K2 Base Camp (5,585m), Minglik Sar Shimshal (6,050m), Khurdopin Pass (5,890m), and Minglik Sar Shimshal (6,050m) at ages 13, 14, and 15.

At the age of 17, Shehroz Kashif ascended Broad Peak (8,047 meters), earning the nickname "The Broad Boy," and at the age of 18, he attained Khusar Gang-Alpine Style (6,050 meters).

Shehroz Kashif became one of the youngest people in the country to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 8849m, when he was just 19 years old.