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 team were all strong climbers, none had Himalayan experience, and poor planning (particularly an inadequate number of porters), coupled with bad weather, prevented the team progressing far beyond the Rakhiot Peak northeast of the Nanga Parbat summit, reached by Peter Aschenbrenner and Herbert Kunigk, but they did establish the feasibility of a route via Rakhiot Peak and the main ridge. Merkl led another expedition in 1934, which was better prepared and financed with the full backing of the new Nazi government. Early in the expedition Alfred Drexel died, probably of high altitude pulmonary edema. The Tyrolean climbers Peter Aschenbrenner and