ISLAMABAD: A 19-year-old boy has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Tuesday. Shehroze Kashif reached the 8,611 metres (28,251 foot) summit at 8:10 am on Tuesday. He now holds an additional record as the youngest person to have summited K2 and Everest. Several of the country’s youngest climbers have been on K2 in recent days. The same day, Samina Baig, 30, said she was abandoning an attempt to summit the mountain because of dangerous conditions.

Source: Pakistan Today July 27, 2021 08:26 UTC