Naila Kiani became the first Pakistani woman climber to summit five peaks of over 8,000m height when on Sunday she successfully ascended Mount Everest (8848m), the world’s tallest mountain, Secretary Alpine Club of Pakistan, Karrar Haidri said in a statement.
“She reached the summit point at 8:02 am,” he said.
A mother of two kids, Naila Kiani is a Dubai-based Pakistani banker and an amateur boxer.
She first rose to prominence after images of her wedding shoot at K2 Base Camp in 2018 circulated on social media. She summited Gasherbrum-II (8,035m) in 2021, Gasherbrum-I (8,068m), K2 (8611) in July 2022 and Annapurna (8,091m) in 2023.
Naila Kiani was the second woman from the country to scale the world’s highest peak. The first female mountaineer from Pakistan to summit the peak is Samina Baig, who achieved the feat back in 2013.
On Kiani’s part, she added another feather to her cap as she became the first non-Nepalese climber to scale Mount Everest this mountaineering season.
