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
Albert F. Mummery Albert F. Mummery Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover, Kent, England – 24 August 1895, Nanga Parbat), was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the Alps, Mummery, along with J. Norman Collie, Hastings, and two Gurkhas are also known to have been the first men in recorded history to have attempted to summit one of the Himalayan eight-thousanders - the fourteen highest peaks in the world. Their innovative, light-weight endeavour upon Nanga Parbat in 1895 was to prove ill-fated with Mummery and both Gurkhas having perished in