GILGIT: Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan has successfully summited the Annapurna peak in Nepal without using supplementary oxygen.
His brother, Shahbaz Khan, confirmed that the 38-year-old climber reached the summit of Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest peak, at approximately 10:50am PST on Monday.
Mr Khan is the first Pakistani climber to have summited all 14 mountains with the height of over 8,000m in the world.
He is also the first Pakistani to scale 13 of them in alpine style — without oxygen support, according to Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
