K-2 Winter Climbing 2021 and missing of Ali Sadpara and his fellow Climbers

 

 PERCEPTIONS OF DIFFERENT WALK PEOPLE

Mountains have always fascinated people. Many have successfully attempted to conquer massive heights climbed to the summit of the world’s highest mountains. Not all the mountains have been kind to all the mountaineers. Over the years many of those attempting to the summit have lost their lives in the love of those high mountains because of avalanches, falls, high altitude sickness, violent storms, ropes breaking, and other causes.

Why is Ali Sadpara blames it be a suicide attempt?

K-2 winter climbing is on top of debate for the last few days because of the missing Ali Sadpara the Hero Pakistan and the two foreign climbers Jhon Snorri and JP Mohr. I came across different perceptions and debates among different walk people. Some of the things the words used by people are awkward and strange for me many of them were of the people who do not know and aware of the importance of adventure especially mountaineering activities were unbearable. Some blame that going to climb on K-2 in winter is a suicide attempt Ali Sadpara, it is because of the not knowing the adventure life. In Pakistan, 90% of people consider it foolish and useless even in my 30 years of experience thousands of people used to ask me why these people going to mountains for trekking, climbing, camping, and walking foot. All these questions could not be answered and make clear to those who think like this. Today when the K-2 incident happened it has been hit all over the world and Pakistani people heard about it some came to know about the importance of mountains and activities carried on in the mountains. 5% of those who know this sport and its importance perceived it as a normal case of the missing of Ali Sadpara and other climbers because it is a part of adventure life and mountaineering, for me it is not the first time hundreds of such incidents have seen in the experience of guiding. The only thing that makes me sad is missing and not knowing about their attempt on K-2 which was the ultimate objective of the said climber. Life and death are the part of the mountaineers and adventure lovers, for 99% of mountaineers never think of return alive and go on this mission otherwise none could bear to be part of this sport.

Was this the incident that happened for the first time on K-2?

This is an important question that needs to think about. In my 30 years of experience have seen, heard, and read different adventure moments and stories of mountains. On K-2 the worst incident happened in 1986, 16 climbers went to the summit of the second-highest mountain K-2 and wanted to be returned happily to celebrate their success, but unfortunately, 11 of those blown by storm while descending only three climbers returned to their homes. Such other accident happened in the year 2016 22 climbers reached the summit 14 of them got an incident while descending only 8 climbers returned. As we think about climbing on K-2 every 2-5 mountaineers die on their adventure mission every year in normal mountaineering activities.

Why Nanga Parbat is called Killer Mountain?

If we see the stories of mountains Nanga Parbat is called the Killer Mountain why so? Because from the very beginning of adventure missions to climb Nanga Parbat many climbers lost their lives in order to put feet on the second-highest mountain in Pakistan Nanga Parbat 8,125 m after K-2 and 9^th highest in the world out of the 14 above 8,000 m. If we think about some of the famous and top climbers in the world who lost their lives on smaller mountains as they conquered the higher ones. Think about the incident of Herman Bhul the first climber on the Giant and Killer Mountain Nanga Parbat but he died on Chogholisa a 7,000 mountain in the Karakorum.

Two years ago the famous Italian climber Daniele Nardi and British young climber Tom Ballard got an accident on Nanga Parbat, this was not highlighted and blame for suicide attempt from their countries and any other in the world. Why do we do so with our hero Muhammad Ali Sadpara? He was born for mountains and lost himself on the mountain of his beloved country in the mission. Many times he used to say to me to living in the mountains is my top priority rather than living in my bedroom. As I heard about the disconnection for long hours, I remember his words of living on K-2 forever.

I am wondered that only Ali Sadpara is the Pakistani who lost his life on K-2

In my experience I have seen many other Pakistani climbers accompanying large and small mountaineer teams lost their lives on the second-highest mountain whether it was for employment or to put their names in the list of adventure lovers who are as important to their families and the country as any other one. Every human being born for one day either on the mountain, in the bedroom, in a road accident, and many other causes it is the will of God that brought us temporarily on the planet earth and takes hereafter forever none is forever on the earth. In perception, we all need to accept the will of God and should leave assumptions about how someone born and dies. As we think about the employment and other activities that are part of life to live in this mortal world we need to work, without it we cannot live alive.

"Ali Sadpara and his love of Mountains"

At last but not At least I give you some testimonials of Sadpara of his love for mountains and finally, he left us at all and got into the mountains forever!!! I think we will not see him again physically but his memories will be in golden words in the mountaineering history of Pakistan.

See below the testimonies

 Wasif Ali Wasif had said

 "The the only heavenly thing in the journey to earth is love"

 And this phrase kept opening up to me in many ways at different stages of my life.  Love is truly a heavenly thing.  It has nothing to do with the minds on the ground.

 This is the whisper of the minds whose flight limits do not depend on the weight of the wings.

 Are we able to say anything about it?  Those who open their eyes in the morning in the thought of earning a living and choose a snack to eat from our clothes till we close our eyes at night are also chosen under social pressure.  We do not remember the dreams we see in the darkness of night in the light of day because we do not have the courage to fulfill them.

 But there are some of us who go on this heavenly journey of never returning in pursuit of these dreams for the light of the campaign of love in the darkness of those nights.

 There are many forms of love, but we do not know why we are unfortunately familiar with the same form.

 For some time now, I have been seeing in many places such people criticizing the mountaineer and his love and tying them up in stupid phrases like "fighting with nature"!

 My question to them is do you know any form of love?

 Do you ask such questions even after hearing stories like Laila Majnoon, Heer Ranjha?

 Do you make such accusations against a mother who dies in childbirth?

 Do you advise a soldier who dies in battle not to compete with nature in challenging death?

 Would you call the love in the field of Karbala suicide?

 Love, whether it is for a human being, for a relationship, for a homeland, for God, or for a mountain top, is heavenly in every form and its breadth is much greater than our superficial minds.

 My love for the mountains is not hidden from my acquaintances, although my love has not taken the form of love like mountain climbing.  But the emotions associated with peaks have always been a significant part of my personality.

 From my childhood, I used to look at the mountains and sketch their moods. I used to think that like human beings, every mountain stands on the ground with a different mood. Some are angry and some are very happy.  Some mountains, though great in their vastness, have a gentle heart, and some are lost in the intoxication of their cause.

 I have always been fascinated by the attribute of mountains that they make many paths out of themselves even while standing in their place.  Maintaining their cause, they take the passenger to his destination.  If you want, you can make a home in them and if you want, you can make your way to them and reach your destination.  If you want, head over to them and if you want, just look at them and express your love!

 But where these mountains are going to take you to the destinations, some of these mountains become your final destination!

 In the making of all these sketches, I was introduced to "Nanga Parbat - The Killer Mountain".

 Believe me it was love at first sight.

 This mountain was not convinced by anyone's love from 1895 to 1953!

 And then in 1953, my heart fell on this mountain that lost heart at the hands of a man named Herman Behl!

 My love for this peak is amazing ...  Whether it's Ferry Meadows or Tarishing, whenever I look at it for the first time, I can't find this feeling with any ground emotion!

 In the same way of love, I also met Muhammad Ali Sadpara who climbed Nanga Parbat for the first time in winter in 2016 and for the first time in autumn in 2017!

 He has climbed 8 of the 14 biggest peaks in the world, but my attachment to him was due to Nanga Parbat.

 Nanga Parbat gave its heart to Muhammad Ali Sadpara 4 times in 2008, 2009, 2016, and 2017.

 She always thought that whenever she met him, she would hear the whole story from him like the same lover who used to take pictures of the beloved taking letters from the messenger every day till the answer came.

 But before I could reach them, they went a long way!

 Believe it or not, love exists from the mountains and I testify to that...

 Evidence of this is given by all the climbers, including Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who are on a heavenly journey to never return to these mountains.  

 I hope the readers will be satisfied with the wrong perception of the missing three climbers on the second-highest mountain in the world.