. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn’t thought was that learning how to climb a mountain would also make me a more confident person. After completing my training and climbing sevreal …show more content…
"Mountain in the World." K2: Second Highest Mountain in the World. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.
K2, located on the Pakistan-Chinese border, is the 2nd highest mountain in the world; Pakistan's highest mountain; and the world's 22nd most prominent mountain. Its Elevation is 28,253 feet (8,612 meters) and Prominence is 13,179 feet (4,017 meters) its Location is Karakoram Range, Pakistan/China, Asia and Coordinates is 35°52′57″ N / 76°30′48″ E
I was 22 years old. I was so excited about this adventoures trip but then I was worried abou how is msny parents going to react as being a Pakistani parents there are conservative they think a lot before sending me alone to any trip, I shared the idea with my parents. As excepted my family reaction were not really good my dad reacted really seriously.
‘Are you gone crazy,’ ‘you’re not strong enough,’ ‘you gona die,said,’ said Dad.
I tired to a lot to get the permission but certainly they refuse I always wanted to goo specialy because the mountain was in the region of my birth place I wanted to be in the group of climber I wanted to feel that feeling to be there at the highest point of my home country and raise my countries flag and make my family proud of …show more content…
But I decided to continue my dream and make them feel that a girl can do anything if she wants, therefore climbing K2 was now my dream. I waited days for this expedition to started, before leaving, we had an orientation and classes where we all were introduced with each other we were thirty people in this expedition, in all the classes we were taught about how to handle the emergency, how we need to coordinate, all about the weather condition and how the change of altitude change going to affect our health. After the orientation we officially started this adventoures expedition. The only thing in my mind at the time was how am I going to handle all the things together, K2 was know for its harsh weather with heavy snow and very strong Jetstream wind. We started traveling from Islamabad to askole it almost took 4 days after that we started our trek to K2 bas camp which was almost 18,650ft/5650m which took us almost 2