Thank you Muhammad Ali Sadpara for putting Pakistan’s mountaineering in limelight at the cost of your life and two other international mountaineers. Once again, it is realized that Pakistan needs to have mountaineering recognized, owned and supported through state patronage. The mountaineering in Pakistan seems to be like an orphan child for the last seven decades. We have seen the doors of the President and Prime Minister houses opened only when any mountaineer has summited any peak and the international media has picked up the story. Otherwise, this adventure sport has no place on the priority list.
After Muhammad Ali Sadpara has lost himself at the bottleneck of K-2 on February 5 this year, the need of a mountaineering school and a…