Qudrat Ali four 8000ers (Broad Peak (1999), Gasherbrum I(2004) and II(2000) and the Nanga Parbat(2001)) out of five in Pakistan. In later years he would join accomplished mountaineer Ralf Dujmovits and alpinist Simone Moro to climb different peaks in Pakistan. In 2001 He made a successful ascent of Nanga Parbat without supplemental oxygen, with Ralf Dujmovits, and Qudrat Ali was the main climber to rise every one of the fourteen crests. He has been part of several challenging expeditions including winter attempts of broad peak twice, in 2008 and 2009. Established formally in 2009 with the support of Simone Moro, Shimshal Mountaineering
1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster Nanga Parbat called "Tigers of the Snow". He interviewed many old Sherpas, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. The book attempts to narrate what went wrong on the expedition, set against mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys. 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster The 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster resulted in the loss of 10 lives over the climbing season including 9 who died in what was, at the time, the largest mountaineering accident in