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Pakistani girls dream higher: Samina’s first 6000er climb at 18
- Samina Khayal, Mirza Ali and Stelian Pavalache with other group members on Chashkin Sar summit, Aug 30, 2010.
Karakoram spires are setting the scene for young guns to show their true colors. In this case, news is even better as it is a local female rising star which has bagged her first ascent. At only 18, Samina Khayal (Officially Samina Baig) summited the previously unclimbed Chashkin Sar (6,400m) in Shimshal, in the Hunza-Giligit region.
Promoting adventure for Pakistani girls
Samina climbed along with her brother Mirza Ali (group leader), Romanian Stelian Pavalache (film maker and photographer), Tafat Shah, Yahya Baig, Salamat Khan and Arshad Karim .
The peak has been renamed “Samina Peak”, according to the team.
The expedition project was launched by Pakistan Youth Outreach, which is a educational program for youth mountaineering and awareness and promoting women adventurers. Mirza Ali is also the founder and president of PYO.
“The project’s main goal was to film a documentary promoting women adventurers in Pakistan,” Mirza told ExplorersWeb. “Thus PYO joined forces with Stelian Pavalache’s Satwa Guna Project–Illusion of Forms. This was for a film about a Pakistani girl climbing a Karakoram 6000er.”
Pakistani women climbers: Everest as ultimate goal
Humility at the top
Stelian Pavalache’s 2010 stage of the Satwa Guna Project was named “Shimshali People”. It comprises of two 90-minute video documentaries and a photographic series “which wants to reveal, but not to judge, aspects of the status of women in the Muslim culture, traditions and local customs, beliefs and forms of mystical practices in the Pakistan, Karakoram area in an attempt to perpetuate and to sustain the conservations of authentic values,” the project website reads.
“Times have changed, and today women in Pakistan are working in areas previously designated for men (such as an army or police officer),” Stelian states. “Despite the progress, climbing is still an exclusively male domain. Lack of information in society about mountain sports, the fact that it is an expensive sport, prejudices about women’s inability to climb and the absence from home in a wilderness area are several reasons that explain the lack of women in the
Samina Khayal and Mirza Ali, siblings, pose at the summit
Pakistani alpine world.”
“This is part of a larger project that will culminate with a Pakistani woman climbing Everest, as Nepalese, Iranian and Indian women have done. No Pakistani woman has ever climbed a 8,000-meter peak–this is ironic if we think that Pakistan has five of the 14 peaks over 8,000 meters in the world.”
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pam henson
September 20, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Congratulations Samina. A great achievement.
AZIZ
September 20, 2010 at 2:36 pm
NICE ACHIEVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Farman ravian
September 20, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Very WELL DONE,.beloved sister..indeed inciting nd couargeous.congratulations for this unprecedented feat. u r an inciting
example 4 others.Brrrvo!
Irfan Mahmood
September 20, 2010 at 3:10 pm
well done….we r proud of women like u….
Didar Ali Hunzai
September 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Very well done! We need to mobilize youth to participate in such healthy activities…
Sher Khan
September 20, 2010 at 5:59 pm
The effort by Samina to climb a peak of 6000m is a moment of great pride for our whole nation especially for the people of Gojal .She has made history and will be remembered for it.We hope she continues her effort till she is on top of Everest.
It to be mentioned here that the people of Shimshal have really set examples on many occasions which need to be followed by others to build a good image of Pakistan in the world… I pay tribute for their great efforts and wish them success in their endavours.
Tariqbaig
September 20, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Congrates to our sister we are proud of you specially the people of Hunza. May God give you a long life for further successes..
Sieling
September 21, 2010 at 12:51 am
Selamat!!
Prestasi yang luar biasa! Congrats to Samina!!
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Nizar (alvi)
September 21, 2010 at 1:20 am
Congratulations Samina…….!!!!
Deeya
September 21, 2010 at 2:56 am
Great JOB!!! Keep it up Samina.. I am sure you will make a world history in future by climbing the Mount Everest and Nanga Parbat as well. We wish you to make a history in your life being daughter of Gojal,Gilgit-Baltistan and in particular being a Pakisnati women.Keep it up!!!
Karim Afzal Karim
September 21, 2010 at 4:30 am
we are proud of Samina. congratulation.
Ghulam Hussain
September 21, 2010 at 4:32 am
Congratulation Samina !!!
On Behalf of me and My Family Safina also Congratulate You and Mirza .
Well done Keep it Up My Sister.
Ghulam Hussain
Radiology
DUHS&SIUT
Pakistan
Timur Beg
September 21, 2010 at 9:55 am
Welldone, Welldone Shahbash,We are proud of our women in HUNZA
masood
September 21, 2010 at 10:53 am
we do apperciate the activities by those people whome the up comming genration take inspiration. samina has done a great jop as a fist yong pakistani climber and one day she will be very popular among the youth of pakistan…..Bravo! Way to go……….
Safder Ali Islamabad
September 21, 2010 at 9:33 pm
GREAT EFFORT MIRZA ALI & SISTER SAMINA, KEEP IT UP
Irshad Ali
September 23, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Well Done and keep it up.
Naina Ali
September 24, 2010 at 1:59 pm
hello Samina and the summiter, well done, and we are proud of you
REHMAT RAHEEM SHERAZI
September 26, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Dear Mirza and Samina,
i would like to congratulat you all with your group of this big achievment, which is not only proud for us as a pakistani (shimshali) but we also proud of being as an ismaili that we have such a great and encouraging opportutnities not for only gents but its also for the ladies too.
i hope you will continue this effort for the bettement of this sports(mountaineerning) .
best of luck,
Rehmat Raheem Sherazi
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Sarfraz khan
January 4, 2011 at 10:51 am
Dear Mirza and Samina,
i would like to congratulat you all with your group of this big achievment, which is not only proud for us as a pakistani (shimshali) but we also proud of being as an ismaili that we have such a great and encouraging opportutnities not for only gents but its also for the ladies too.
i hope you will continue this effort for the bettement of this sports(mountaineerning) .
best of luck,
Sarfraz khan
CAI.Badakshan
Afghanistan
Rahim Khan
January 20, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Congratulation Samina, Bravo Girl, We are proud of you
ARMANKARIMHUNZAI
January 20, 2011 at 5:23 pm
A BRAVE GIRL SAMINA >>>>>>>>>>>>>MAWLA AAPKI HAR KHAWAISH PURA KARE
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Ahsan from Karachi
January 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Welldone Samina, the history maker. Welldone indeed……
Ahmad Ali Shah
January 22, 2011 at 10:02 am
We are proud of you my dear sister and daughter of GB. now sky is the limit for you. keep it up………………………..
Goodluck
Leeda Hamdard
January 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Dear sweet sister,
I am proud of you…..May Allah bless you for ever and wish you more success in every field of your life…..Wish you all the best
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