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
Jane Thomson aged 57, with Conrad Kain she became the second woman, after Freda Du Faur, to traverse Mount Cook. Aged 68, she made her first ascent of the low peak of Mount Rolleston in Arthur's Pass National Park. Aged 80, she travelled to Kashmir to visit Nanga Parbat. Jane Thomson Jane Thomson (18 May 1858 – 17 July 1944) was a notable New Zealand mountaineer. She was born in Kaiapoi, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1858. In 1903 she and two other women, became the first women to cross Copland Pass. Whilst they were successful, their guide Jack Clarke declared the