SIRBAZ Khan has achieved what no other Pakistani has before him. The scale of his accomplishment also makes him one of the few in the world in this category of mountaineering. It has been an eight-year journey during which he has entered the ‘death zone’ on 14 occasions to become the first Pakistani mountaineer to have summited all 8,000m peaks in the world — and without bottled oxygen. His successful ascent of Nepal’s Kangchenjunga on Sunday completed his........

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