Ali Sadpara Ali Sadpara Muhammad Ali Sadpara ( born 1972 ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He is the first Pakistani and the first member of the mountaineer group to summit the Nanga Parbat in winter. He was born in a village, Sadpara, in periphery of Skardu city, extreme north of Pakistan. He started his career as porter. He started as a porter and now he has climbed 5 of 14 Eight-thousanders. In 2015 his team tried to scale the Nanga Parbat in winter and was unsuccessful. They again tried in 2016 and summited the peak, it was the first ever winter summit
Nanga Parbat faces Kanchenjunga was more difficult than Everest and neither expedition made much progress. K2 was known to be harder still, and its remoteness meant that even reaching its base would be a major undertaking. Nanga Parbat was therefore the highest mountain accessible to Germans and also deemed reasonably possible by climbers at the time. The first German expedition to Nanga Parbat was led by Willy Merkl in 1932. It is sometimes referred to as a German-American expedition, as the eight climbers included Rand Herron, an American, and Fritz Wiessner, who would become an American citizen the following year. While the