Abdul Joshi (born 3 December 1984) from Shimsal is a Pakistani mountaineer who became the first climber in the world to summit the main Passu Cones peak in Pakistan's

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on 14 August 2021. Abdul is known as the "Path Finder" amongst the local mountaineering fraternity for his talent for finding new, unclimbed routes. He is also the first person in the world to cross the F.N./Joshi Pass and Verjerav Pass. On 16 April 2021, Abdul became the first Pakistani to summit

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, the tenth-highest peak in the world at , along with his climbing partner,

Sirbaz Khan Sirbaz Khan (born 1986.12.03) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He is the first Pakistani to summit all 14 eighth-thousander peaks in the world. Early life Sirbaz was born in Aliabad, Hunza Valley in 1987. His father was a carpenter and his first exp ...

. On 16 May 2022, he became the 8th Pakistani to summit

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. Abdul started his mountaineering career as a high-altitude porter on mountain expeditions in Pakistan. He climbed his first peak, Manglik Sar (), at the age of 18.Abdul Joshi - Tougher the Mountain, the Better the Story
Retrieved 2022-08-09 Joshi once went up to Camp 3 (7,400m) of K2 (8,611m) when an avalanche swept their tents away and crushed their summit dreams. He has also been on a G2 (8,034m) expedition. Abdul has also been involved in multiple high-altitude rescue operations. In June 2019, Abdul, who was at Camp 3 of Passu Cones, only from the summit, received news of an avalanche that had hit an Italian-Pakistani expedition on Melvin Jones Peak (). Abdul abandoned his expedition and joined a four-member team to rescue the stranded climbers. On 12 September 2021, Abdul led a successful rescue operation on

Rakaposhi Rakaposhi (; ) also known as Dumani () is a mountain within the Karakoram range in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It is situated in the middle of the Nagar and Bagrote valleys. The mountain is extremely broad, measuring almost from east to west ...

to retrieve three stranded climbers, two of whom were Czech citizens climbing without permits.

Mountaineering expeditions

* Passu Cones 14 August 2021 *

16 April 2021 *

16 May 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joshi, Abdul Living people Pakistani mountain climbers Pakistani summiters of Mount Everest People from Hunza-Nagar District 1983 births