Adventure: Mountaineering season draws down

ISLAMABAD: Fifty mountaineering expeditions climbed the peaks of Pakistan this summer and the process of their return will be completed once the mountaineering season ends in mid-September. Applications for 53 expeditions were received in which around 50 participated and two climbers lost their lives, an official of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) told APP on Wednesday. The June-August mountaineering season attracts expeditions for K2, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum-II and Spantik Peak, some of the toughest eight-thousanders in the Karakorum Range, along with Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 6^th, 2012.