Shehroze Kashif ( ur, شہروز کاشف; born 11 March 2002) is a Pakistani mountaineer who became the youngest climber in the world to summit K2 on 27 July 2021. He became the youngest Pakistani to summit

Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...

on 11 May 2021. After the successful summit of Mount Everest, Sports Board Punjab made him the youth ambassador of Punjab, Pakistan. He summited Broad Peak at the age of 17, after which he was called 'The Broad Boy'. He currently holds two

Guinness World Records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...

for being the youngest to climb K2 and the youngest to climb Broad Peak.

Early years

He started climbing mountains at the age of 11 with the first one being

Makra Peak The Makra is a peak in the Mansehra District in Hazara Region of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan. It is high and almost from Islamabad on the Naran Road. From Kiwai, a single 7-kilometre-long road runs uphill to Shogran, a tourist resort ...

, followed by

Musa ka Musalla Musa ka Musalla ( ) is a peak standing at an altitude of about at the junction of Siran and Kaghan Valleys in Himalayas. It is situated north of the city of Abbottabad in Balakot Tehsil of Mansehra District. Etymology The name Musa ka Musall ...

and

Chembra Peak Chembra Peak (Chembra Mala) is a mountain in the state of Kerala, India, with an elevation of above sea level. The highest peak in the Wayanad hills and one of the highest peaks in the Western Ghats, adjoining the Nilgiri Hills and Vellarimala ...

at age 12,

Mingli Sar Minglik Sar ( ur, ) is a mountain located in the Shimshal valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The mountain, located in the Karakoram mountain range, is 6050 meters high and located at the southernmost part of the Pamir mountain range. It wa ...

in Shimshal at age 13 and Khurdopin Pass at age 15 and Khosar Gang in

alpine style Alpine style is mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter and equipment as one climbs, as opposed to expedition style (or siege style) mountaineering which involves setting up a fixed line of stocked ...

at 18 years of age.

2020s

On 5 May 2022, Kashif became the youngest in the world and the first Pakistani to reach the summit of Kangchenjunga - the third highest peak in the world. On 16 May 2022, Kashif summited the world's fourth-highest peak,

Lhotse Lhotse ( ne, ल्होत्से ; , ''lho tse'', ) is the fourth highest mountain in the world at , after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga. The main summit is on the border between Tibet Autonomous Region of China and the Khumbu ...

(8,516m), in Nepal. On 28 May 2022, Kashif and

Sirbaz Khan Sirbaz Khan is a Pakistani mountaineer. He is the first Pakistani to summit 13 of the eight-thousanders, which comprise the world's 14 highest peaks. Sirbaz Khan's official website: https://sirbaz.com Career In October 2017, Sirbaz Khan climbe ...

summited 8,485 metres Makalu, the world's fifth-highest peak, in Nepal. In July 2022, Kashif and Fazal Ali went missing between Camp 4 and Camp 3, after successfully summiting Nanga Parbat. However, the duo was discovered shortly after. On 1 November 2022, Shehroze Kashif was recognised by Guinness World Records for the year 2023 for summiting Mount Everest and K2.

Mountaineering expeditions

* Broad Peak 14 July 2019 *

11 May 2021 * K2 - 27 July 2021 * Manaslu - 25 September 2021 * Kangchenjunga - 05 May 2022 *

- 16 May 2022 * Makalu - 28 May 2022 * Nanga Parbat - 5 July 2022 *

Gasherbrum II Gasherbrum II ( ur, ; ); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It is the third-highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, and is located in the Karakoram, on the border between Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan a ...

- 08 August 2022 *

Gasherbrum I Gasherbrum I ( ur, ; ), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It is located in Shigar District in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan. Gasherbrum I is part of the Ga ...

- 12 August 2022 * Annapurna - 16 April 2023 * Dhaulagiri - 17 May 2023 * Manaslu - 17 May 2023 *

Cho Oyu __NOTOC__ Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु; ; ) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the ''Khumbu'' sub-section of the Mahalangur ...

- 06 October 2023

References

Pakistani summiters of Mount Everest Pakistani mountain climbers Pakistani summiters of Broad Peak Living people 2002 births Pakistani summiters of K2 {{Pakistan-bio-stub