{"id":978,"date":"2021-07-29T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:41:40","slug":"pakistani-teen-becomes-youngest-person-to-summit-k2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pakistani Teen Becomes Youngest Person to Summit K2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K2 is second highest peak (after Everest) but far and away the most dangerous &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/2\/10\/why-the-savage-k2-peak-beckons-the-daring-but-rarely-in-winter\">one killed climber for every four who succeeded in reaching its summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdee3cffd200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pakistani climber\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdee3cffd200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdee3cffd200c-300wi\" style=\"width: 297px;\" title=\"Pakistani climber\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gearjunkie.com\/news\/youngest-person-summit-k2\">Shehroze Kashif summited Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world, a few months ago. Now, the young man nicknamed \u2018Broad Boy\u2019 has summited the second highest peak \u2014 K2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Tuesday morning, Pakistani native Shehroze Kashif reached the summit<\/strong> of K2 at age 19. Not only did he climb the 28,251-foot peak, but he is now the youngest person to do so, the Alpine Club of Pakistan reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278803bb75e200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pakistani climber 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20278803bb75e200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278803bb75e200d-300wi\" style=\"width: 297px;\" title=\"Pakistani climber 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K2 is second highest peak (after Everest) but far and away the most dangerous &#8211; one killed climber for every four who succeeded in reaching its summit. Shehroze Kashif summited Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world, a few months ago. Now, the young man nicknamed \u2018Broad Boy\u2019 has summited the second highest peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}