{"id":5718,"date":"2009-05-08T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2009-05-08T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T04:01:04","slug":"nazir-sabir-speaks-at-the-aga-khan-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2009\/05\/08\/nazir-sabir-speaks-at-the-aga-khan-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazir Sabir speaks at the Aga Khan University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nazir Sabir making a presentation at the AKU auditorium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Nur<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Karachi, May 07:<\/strong> Nazir Sabir, the first Pakistani to set foot on the Mount Everest, shared stories of his mountaineering adventures in a fully packed auditorium at the Aga Khan University, here in Karachi. He had been invited by the university as part of its special lecture program series, being held to commemorate 25 years of AKU. Sabir belongs to Gilgit \u2013 Baltistan, a native of Hunza valley. Nazir Sabir is also the first civilian president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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A banner at the AKU entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sabir, in a very light manner, told the audience about his brushes with death at different mountains. He also said that at two occasions, once at K2 and then at the Mount Everest, he was so mesmerized by \u2018the drama of nature\u2019 that he felt enlightenment; awareness of the magnitude and\u00a0purpose of his being.<\/p>\n

Sabir shared breathtaking photographs from many of his adventures, including successful ones and the not-so-successful ones. He specifically mentioned failure of his first attempt on the Everest, during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Pakistan. He said that this failure made the Everest not only a personal but also a national challenge for him. About the cause of failure he said that \u2018ferocious Tibetan winds\u2019 made all their climbing efforts futile. He also talked about his companions, fallen and alive, including Reinhold Messner, Scott Fischer, several Japanese climbers,\u00a0including Eiho Otani, his\u00a0K2 summit partner, and his Pakistani comrads,\u00a0including Ashraf Aman, the first Pakistani to climb K2, \u00a0Brig (r) Sher Khan, Rajab Shah and Meherban, all\u00a0four hailing from\u00a0the Gojal \u2013 Hunza valley.<\/p>\n

Sabir finally talked about his successful attempt on Mount Everest, where he was able to \u2018place the Hilali parcham<\/em>\u2019 on top of the world. The auditorium resounded with applauses as Sabir showed a slide in which he stood on top of the world, with a Pakistani falg in his hands.<\/p>\n

Later, responding to questions, Sabir said that despite of the immense natural conditions available in Pakistan for developing skills of the mountaineers, no serious efforts were being made by the authorities. He lamented the \u2018absence of 46 percent of Pakistan\u2019s population (the females) in the mountains\u2019. He said that in 2007 he made an effort to send a group of females to the mountains for training purpose but because of the political turmoil at that time the efforts couldn\u2019t materialize.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also told the audience that a group of aspiring young mountaineers are being trained at the Passu glacier region. \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Nur Karachi, May 07: Nazir Sabir, the first Pakistani to set foot on the Mount Everest, shared stories of his mountaineering adventures in a fully packed auditorium at the Aga Khan University, here in Karachi. He had been invited by the university as part of its special lecture program series, being held to commemorate …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[219,4781,10,6,220,4772,4776],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","category-pakistan","tag-aku","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gojal","tag-hunza","tag-nazir-sabir","tag-pakistan","tag-sports"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}