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Pakistani climber stuck on Nanga Parbat shares his ordeal
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9/4/2023
Pakistani mountaineer Asif Bhatti was stranded at the 8,126-meter-tall Nanga Parbat — the world's ninth-highest mountain — due to snow blindness. An Azerbaijani mountaineer helped him reach the base camp.
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I was all alone, I had to climb all the way from camp 3 to camp 4 the whole night.
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The temperature was around -15 to -20.
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And in this scenario, a snow blizzard appeared due to which I was not able to have a clear
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vision.
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So that is why certain problems appear like snow blindness and frostbite and I have decided
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to quit my expedition.
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At camp 4, I contacted Base Camp and asked for help, but unfortunately, for the next
00:55
three days there was no help and I had to descend down all alone.
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And luckily, a foreign climber, my friend Mr. Israfil was there, he was from Azerbaijan,
01:08
and he helped me to descend down from camp 4 up to camp 2 and then help appeared at camp
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2 and then I descended down to Base Camp.
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Due to certain reasons, there is no qualified rescue crew in Pakistan.
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If we compare ourselves to the Nepali environment, they have qualified rescue crew, so they have
01:38
qualified heli operators and immediately when there is a certain issue, they approach over
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there and through heli or through ground operation, they try their best to approach to the patient
01:54
in minimum time.
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Whereas in Pakistan, we have no qualified high altitude porters that are meant for the
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rescue operation.
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The mountaineering is the major factor to run the economy of Nepal.
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Pakistan has more challenging peaks and the whole world is more interested to come to
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Pakistan.
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So, if the major people or lot of people come to the Pakistan, they can contribute towards
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the economy of Pakistan as we have a lot of hazards, financial hazards, we have a lot
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of pressure from IMF and other donors.
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So if we pay focus on this side, we can provide a lot of cushion for government's issues,
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especially in economic sense.
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