Mountaineer Naila Kiani has added another feather to her growing cap: she has become the first Pakistani woman to summit the Broad Peak, and to climb five peaks over 8,000 meters high.
Naila accomplished this feat today by summiting the 8,051-meter high Broad Peak.Broad Peak is the 12th highest peak in the world, part of the Gasherbrum massif in Baltistan on the Pak-China border. It is located in the Karakoram range about eight kilometres (five miles) from K2.
The mountaineer has previously climbed K2, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I and II in Pakistan, as well as Mount Everest, Lhotse and Annapurna in Nepal.
She is also the first Pakistani woman to summit Nanga Parbat, Lhotse, Annapurna and Gasherbrum.
