Facts about K2 ( Mount Godwin Austin / Choghoo-RI)

       Complete Facts about K2 (world's 2nd highest Peak)

K2 is also known as Mount Godwin Austin or Choghoo-RI ( High peak) in the balti (Tibetian) language. The altitude of this mountain is about 8611 meters from sea level and the 2nd highest peak after Mount Everest. It is situated at the Pak-China border on the Karakoram ranges in the north of Pakistan. It is located in the Baltistan region in Shigar (district of Gilgit Baltistan Province). K2 is the highest mountain in the Karakoram ranges. It is very hard to climb this mountain so this mountain is also called Killer Mountain. Among eight-thousanders mountains, K2 is the second number cause of many deaths during climbing. One among every four got killed during trekking on this mountain. It is even harder to climb from China's side of this mountain which's why mountaineers use Pakistan for climbing, it was not summited during winter since 2020 but this year only twelve Nepalese made the summit to K2 in winter. Thomas Montgomerie from British India did a survey and found the Karakoram ranges and named K1, K2, and K3 here K means the Karakoram. The first attempt on K2 was in 1906 by Oscar Eckenstein, Aleister Crowley, Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, and some others. When Thomas found these mountains he gave names according to localists that K1 was called Mashaburm and as K2 was far away from localists so the name was not given initially, later on, it was given Balti name Choghoo-Ri means Huge / High mountain. this mountain was also given as Godwin Austin because Austin discovered these for the first time, but the royal geographical society rejected this name and gave its initial name K2.

The first of a few fruitless endeavors to arrive at K2's culmination was made in 1902.

Fritz Wiessner, an incredible German climber who relocated to the US, drove a 1939 American endeavor that set another world elevation record by arriving at 8,380 meters (27,500 feet) on the Abruzzi Prod. The party was 656 feet from the culmination prior to pivoting. Four colleagues were killed.

At last, in 1954 an Italian endeavor, driven by Ardito Desio, succeeded. Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, the group that looked over this endeavor to endeavor the last part of the ascension, are credited with having arrived at the highest point.

It has the second-most noteworthy casualty rate among the eight-thousanders. The eight-thousanders are the 14 free mountains on Earth that are in excess of 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) high above ocean level.

With around 300 fruitful culminations and 77 fatalities, around one individual bites the dust on the mountain for each four who highest point.

It is more troublesome and dangerous to arrive at the pinnacle of K2 from the Chinese side; hence, it is normally moving from the Pakistani side.

There is a headquarters situated on the Pakistani side from where all the significant climbing courses start.

Each course to the culmination of K2 presents its own difficulties and hardships, yet the absence of oxygen and outrageous height is normal for all, with just a third as much oxygen accessible at the highest point as there is an adrift level.

The standard course of rising, utilized definitely more than some other course (75% of all climbers utilize this course) is the Abruzzi Prod, situated on the Pakistani side, first endeavored by Sovereign Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi in 1909.

It is normally moved in June, July, or August. K2 has first time summited by 12 Nepali Climbers.

A 1986 endeavor driven by George Wallerstein made a wrong estimation mistakenly showing that K2 was taller than Mount Everest, and hence the tallest mountain on the planet. A rectified estimation was made in 1987, yet by that point, the case that K2 was the tallest mountain on the planet had proactively made it into numerous news reports and reference works.

1986 was a terrible year on K2 with 13 climbers kicking the bucket.

The most awful K2 catastrophe happened on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountain dwellers from global undertakings kicked the bucket on K2.

For the vast majority of its climbing history, K2 was not typically moved with supplemental oxygen, and little, moderately lightweight groups were the standard. Anyway, the 2004 season saw an extraordinary expansion in the utilization of oxygen: 28 of 47 summiteers involved oxygen in that year.

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The principal lady to the highest point K2 was Shaft Wanda Rutkiewicz on 23 June 1986.

In 2004 the Spanish climber Carlos Soria Fontán turned into the most established individual ever to the highest point K2, at 65 years old.

A narrative film, The Highest Point endeavors to make sense of the fixation on K2, the risks of climbing it, and the 2008 misfortune.

K2: Alarm of the Himalayas is a 2012 narrative film that follows a gathering of climbers during their 2009 endeavor to climb K2, chronicling the climbers' endeavor to conquer the top on the 100-year commemoration of the Duke of Abruzzi's milestone K2 campaign in 1909.

K2 is a 1991 movie inexactly founded on the tale of two companions' rising on K2.

As far as possible is a high-adrenaline story of a youthful climber who should send off a tricky and phenomenal salvage exertion up K2, to save his sister and her culmination group in a test of skill and endurance.

K2, having its portion of epic climbs, is likewise a heap of writing.

This killer mountain has taken the lives of many mountainers. Recently a famous Pakistani mountainers trekker Ali Sadpara with his two friends John Snorri and JP Mohr (European) got lost during the winter summit of 2021, these three men want to summit K2 at any cost and they become firm after when 12 of our Nepalese brothers attempt first place. There was something in them bravery, and madness for the summit without wearing an oxygen mask. After 5th February we lost contact during the summit at C4 his son Sajid came down; something mess happened with his oxygen regulator and after that, we lost contact with them Sajid made that he came back safe but it has almost a month since they lost, the whole Nation was praying for them the whole world was waiting for them although there is no chance that they would be alive; the name ALI is too strong that it didn't make us break hope.

 

 

Muhammad Bin Qasim a Hero or Invader ?

 Q: Why did Muhammad Bin Qasim attack on Hindu Dynasty Empire Sindh.?

In-School I read many times about this young Muslim commander, now I have read about five times in different books about Muhammad Bin Qasim the great conqueror of Sindh who made Muslims proud by defeating the Hindu King, who was cruel who did marry her sister and as casual some negative comments about the king Raja Dahir. It is often read in Urdu compulsory, Social Studies, and Islamic Studies. Now I'm in intermediate and studied about five to six times, I don't about higher studies and how they mentioned his Chapter.

What we were taught:

 We were taught that Muhammad Bin Qasim was right and the savior of humanity because he was Muslim and we are in a Muslim state so Muslims do not talk against our so-called heroes. The Muslim girls and women were used captured from the Middle East and exported to Raja Dahir, according to some these women were taken as prisoners from Sri Lanka, here I wanna say that as there were no single Muslims in all over South Asia so these women were doing in Sri-Lanka. According to some books, the first Muslims captured the Hindu territory. It was 712 AD when he invaded Sindh and conquered it. So let's move forward in history after this news was given to the Khalifa of Muslims of the Umayyad Dynasty and the Caliph sent one of his youngest army Commander to attack Sindh in this way, this young fighter warrior fight with great bravery and conquered Sindh by defeating Raja Dahir in a battle of Aror.

What I get after research:  

 After that when I researched this then everything opened like a book, Which taught me well all thoughts and also read about Hindu articles that were different in this case, Muhammad bin Qasim was made the enemy of humanity but the truth reveals by some Muslims Scholars on the top I want to mentioned Engineer Muhammad Ali a Sunni Scholar who has a Youtube Channel of Education, and some others that this man who was called brave commander differed from that because he was not here in Sindh for Muslims women's (prisoners) but was for those Muslims women's who were the Family of Prophets called as Ahlebyait (as). These Umayyad caliphs were always against the family of the Prophet (SAW) they fought much war even after they followed Islam. The hatred of the Ahlebyait (as) of the Ummayad family was before Islam. These two families always came against each other so to understand this we have to go through the past and study that.

Hashemite-Ummayyad Rivalry:

 Abd Manaf al-Mughira ibn-Qusai was from a tribe Quresh. His father was Qusai ibn Kilab, the great great great grandfather of the Holy Prophet of Islam Hazrat Muhammad (saw). Among all children of Abd Manaf, all his three children were executed only Hashim and Abd Shamas ibn Abd Manaf were left and they raised their children. Now Hashim's wife give birth to Abdul Muttalib and Abd Shamas had only a child too named Ummayah ibn Abd Shamas.

Bani-Hashim:

 Hashim son Abdul Muttalib raised his six children named Abdullah, Hamza, Abi Talib, Az-Zubyar, Al-Abbas, and Abi Lahab. The Prophethood came in the forehead of Hashim and was divided into two terms Nabuwat and Imamat. Nabuwat moves through Abdullah's forehead and the last Prophet is Hazrat Muhammad (saw) and the Imammat converts in Abi-Talib and the first Imam is Hazrat Ali (as). So Prophet (saw) marries his only daughter with the first Imam Hazrat Ali (as), and the Immamat moves through them till Hazrat Mehdi (as) the last Imam of Islam will appear soon (inshallah).

The Ummayah become an enemy of Hashim when Hashim banished his brother from Mecca and Ummayah settle in Syria and become a tradesman. 

Bani-Ummayah:

Ummayah's son Harab-ibn Ummayah and grandson is Abu Sufyan. Abu Sufyan merry with Hinda and she give birth to Mawayia and Mawayia's son named Yazeed.

Ummayah had another son named Abu Al-aas who raised another two sons Al-Hakam and Uthman (3rd caliph of Islam).  

The Clash between these two Families:

As we mentioned above that Hashim banished his brother Abd Shamas from Mecca, so from here both became rivalry and enemies of each other, then after that every generation came against each other and opposes each other even fighting the war. So whenever they got a chance against each other had taken full advantage of that. They came against each other starting from their ancestors till now, and there are still two major minds set believe against each other. So Abu Sufyan came against Holy Prophet (saw) on every battlefield and Sufyan always got defeated by Muslims and the major attackers were from Hashim initially Hazrat Hamza and Hazrat Ali made it difficult for Meccan's to win after Hazrat Hamza got Shaheed in the battle of Uhud the Sufyan family point their swords and arrows towards Hazrat Ali in every field and Ghazwa-Khandaq Hazrat Ali defeated Sufyan till the Fatah-e-Makkah Hazrat Ali defeated kuffar's in every battle, Sufyan's father in law, brother in law and some other relatives were killed by Mola Ali in battle so Hinda Abu Sufyan's wife becomes a complete enemy of Mola Ali(as) and this Sufyan family did everything before and after to defeat Prophet's family. After Holy Prophet (saw) Mawayia son of Abu Sufyan came against Hazrat Ali (as) and fought a war known as the Battle of Sufeen. All the Sahaba who were alive were on the side of Hazrat Ali(as) in battle because they had listened to a Hadith of the Prophet :

         "Woe'' Ammar will be killed by the transgressing group, 

         he will be calling them to Paradise and they will be calling to hell". 

The battle was against Malaysia.

Then his son Yazeed was made Caliph and he asked Imam Hussain(as) to obey him and to follow him as caliph of Islam then the historic sentence was said by Imam was :

       me, like (a person like myself) will never obey that like ( Sinful man).

after that Imam made their way to Mecca and Yazid sent men to Mecca in the shape of pilgrims to assassinate Imam in Mecca during Hajj then Imam Hussain(as) moved after that towards Kuffa and in between the way Imam was Shaheed by Yazid army a place called Karbala.

Why Muhammad bin Qasim came to Sindh:

   So above we mentioned a summary of the history between these two families, The Ummayah family didn't accept Alvi Khalifat of Kuffa and the believer of Alvi khalifa didn't accept Ummayah-Khalifat of Syria. Hazrat Ali(as) ruled for about 4 years and some months after that Mukhtar Al-thaqfi ruled Iraq for about 3 years and made his government based on Alvi Khalifat suggesting working under Immamat of that time the fourth Imam, afterwords Arabia was caught by Marwan's as Marwind ruling house after the collapse of Sufyan family Marwinds were brothers of Sufyan's family. So in 685AD Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan become Ummayad caliphate and then appointed Hajjaj bin Yousaf as the governor he was still the governor of Hejaiz after him during Al-Walid 1, so during 712AD the governor of Hijaz Hajjaj Bin Yousuf sent his Nephew to Sindh because women are from Ahlebyait (as) make their way to Sindh because they were being tortured by Ummayads because they have always been against Ahlebyait(as) as rivalry so hajjaj than sent Qasim to Sindh and asked the Raja of Sindh Raja Dahir and demand for their prisoners but the Raja of Sindh instead of giving them back, he fought against the Arab invader on his land and as he fought a battle so this shows his love with the Ahlebyait(as) and respect to them he never surrenders and got killed by Arab Invader in a battle of Aror.

So this was the real history that happened in the past and was manipulated by our writers and taught us wrong about history.

We support Arab invaders on Sindh (Qasim) but oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This is none other than just the Hipocracy of us.