Pakistan is blessed with countless beautiful and scenic places. It is also an adventurer’s paradise, given its proximity to various mountain peaks, lakes, trekking and camping areas, and more.
Adventure sports have enormous potential here. But rarely do we see a youngster risking it all and conquering some of the most unforgiving terrains in Pakistan. Until now that is.
Meet Shehroze Kashif, a 15-year old from Lahore who is the youngest mountaineer in Pakistan. He started out with his first expedition at the age of 12. In the last 3 years, he has scaled mountain peaks that are more than 4,000 meters in altitude.
The young mountaineer has scaled the infamous Gondogora Pass (5700 meters) which is just 25km south of the K2. In fact, he has also conquered Minglik Sir, which is his highest personal record to date at 6050 meters.
How It All Started
Shehroz says that to start anything new or to find passion in something, you need some kind of inspiration from someone. For him, his inspiration came from one of his father’s trip to Siri Paye, Shogran where he saw some trekkers starting their journey towards the Makra Peak (4000 meters).
His interest developed with time. Shehroz particularly was curious about what his father and his trekking partners did when they got to the top and what was their purpose.
Unfortunately, during those early years, he wasn’t allowed to go trekking with them due to severe weather conditions.
Eventually, Shehroz and his father, Kashif, came back to Shogran a week later, hired a porter and before long, the 12 year old had scaled his first peak.
From there on, it was peaks after peaks. His next trekking trip was to Musa Ka Musalla (4080m), which he also did at the age of 12 back in 2014. In fact, he went there 2 times, once in summers and once during the winters.
Sheroz joked that before going to Musa Ka Musalla, he had never seen snow, as he was aware of Murree but wasn’t able to visit it. But now he says, there’s no need for him to go to Murree.
Keeping up at an extraordinary pace, he went on to scale Chambra Peak (4600+m) in the same year, Â and the Ganga Choti (3044m) in 2015.
Shehroz says it was at this time where he decided he was done with sub-5000 meters and he went on to climb Minglik Sar peak which is 6050m.
He mentions that is one of the most difficult peaks to scale as the route was less than ideal and there was trouble finding water. His proudest trek, however, is the Gondogoro Pass near the K2 base camp.
What is he up to now?
Shehroz is ready for more adventures and wants to scale as many peaks as possible. He is currently off for another expedition at the Khurdopin Pass. For the unaware, Khurdopin is considered one of the most dangerous and challenging Passes around the world. It hasn’t been scaled in over 10 years!
We wish Shehroz the best of luck and hope he conquers all that he sets out to do.
I thought shes a girl. Lol… Good boy, keep it up
and thats why u starting reading it on the first place…lol
very bad
tharki insaan. apki aulad ko bhe koi esy boly tou kesa lagay ga ?
Sb hajio ko mera salam…. Yaha aa k sharafat apky ang ang sy tapakti hy… ?
aur aap kay ang ang say zalalat… thodi to sharam kar lo..
Apki soch aur zalalat ko 22 topo ki salami.
You should be ashamed of your comments. This is not a joke at all Muhammad Zain. I am the father of this young boy, now tell me how should i feel and react on your comments. Just put your self in my shoes and see if you can simply ignore this harassment towards my son
Respected sir, i hadn’t put “piece bara tait aye” in any vulgar way… He is a good lad, who is achieving things for his country and all above his parents. If my comment put any discomfort, i apologise, i didn’t intend any harm.
Muhammad Zain , just put yourself in my shoes and try reading it in non vulgar way… you will never be able to convince yourself that it was for the sake of humor because its sick and its disgusting. Anyways I hope you understand it was harmful and it can lead to more …
Sir i apologize for any discomfort, my choice of words was poor but i didn’t want or need any fuss or bad omen for this son of Pakistan, i couldn’t take back any discomfort you felt, but surely i will be able to make it less painful for you. I hope you accept my apology, thank you.
Welldone boy
*** Khurdopin Trek Update ***
Team Khurdupin2 being lead by Omar Javaid had reached Mango campsite yesterday. They are on their way to Biantha today.
Sheroze is part of that team.
12july, 2017 update
Good luck Shahroz, you’re a motivation for the young generation.
Aur Hum 15 Saal Ki Umar Chaadi Pehan K Gulli Danda Kailte they Gaalio Main :p
arey bhai ap dill kyun chota karty hain ap aaj bhe chaddi pehan kar wahan ja sakty hain propakistani pe comments karnay k bajaye
all about money and free time.