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SLUMS Newsletter SSPPOORRTTSS MMOONNTTHHLLYY OOUUTTLLOOOOKK I S S U E 2 • F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 1 B Y S P O R T S A T L U M S NEWS & FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS PAGE 1 - 3 ALI SADPARA - A LEGEND WE LOST PAGE 4 & 5 HIGHLIGHTS W I L S O N C O M P A N Y PakNiEstWaSnL EST pT EoRrts Updates SATURDAYS WITH SLUMS - EPISODE 12 T APABGLEE 6 O F Some Praise-worthy Personalities to C O N T E N T S Athlete in Focus Brighten Your Day! PAGE 7 This month we are wrapping up our podcast series, which CEO's Message • P. 2 included interviews with various athletes across different sports, ranging from rugby to table tennis. The last episode Team Sports - (episode 12) was hosted by our exceptional hosts Rojah The Lead • P. 3 Sheikh (Football Senior Representative) and Talha Ashfaq An Overview (Badminton Senior Representative) and moderated by Ayman GrowiPngA BGusEin e8ss • P. 4 Irfan (General Secretary). This podcast featured Mirza Ali and Ali Saeed Uddin as guests. Tune in to find out more! Editors' Notes Best Employees • P. 5 PAGE 9 Mirza Ali Baig is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer and the first Pakistani man to summit the highest peaks in all seven continents of the world. Mirza Ali also founded an NGO, Pakistan Youth Outreach which aims to promote Gender Equality through education and adventure sports among youth and women in Pakistan Mr. Ali is a professional tourism expert. He is the pioneer who introduced extreme sports to women in Pakistan and made several documentaries related to extreme adventure in Pakistan, particularly women in mountaineering and other winter sports. Mr. Mirza provides training and organizing expeditions for students from schools, colleges, and universities across Pakistan, putting M I R Z A A L I B A I G his entire effort into promoting mountaineering as sports in Pakistan. Ali Saeed Uddin is Pakistan’s first international fencer. Mr. Ali has been participating in international sporting events representing Pakistan and also securing top finishes. Having scored Bronze for Pakistan in the 13th South Asian Games 2019, he is currently in training for the Tokyo Olympics. He also won the MKFA ambassador award in 2017. He was the National Champion of Pakistan in 2016-2017; he was listed as the Top 16 Fencer in the UAE in the year 2016. A L I S A E E D U D D I N By Areej G. Shabbir (Batch of ’22) SATURDAYS WITH SLUMS - EPISODE 11 Some Praise-worthy Personalities to Brighten Your Day! = Another amazing episode that was hosted during our podcast se ries, Saturdays with SLUMS, was Episode #11 by Farzaan Ja mil (Rugby Senior Representative) and Fatima Mirza (F ootball Netball Senior Representative) and moderated by Ra mish Rao (Vice President Administration). The guests featured include Kashif Khwaja, Abiha Haider, Hamza Hayyaudin, Muhammad Ali Khan and Shazia Shabbir. If you missed it, no need to fret. You can always watch the episode on our Facebook and Instagram page! Kashif Khwaja has been a regular member and captain of the Pakistan National Rugby team for the past two decades, with numerous titles and achievements to his name. He has also represented the country in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand etc. K A S H I F K H W A J A Abiha Haider is the Pakistan football team’s esteemed midfielder. With an LLM degree from the University of London, Abiha has been a regular footballer, who has represented Pakistan in various international tournaments. A B I H A H A I D E R Hamza Hayyauddin has represented Pakistan in the rugby league as well as in rugby sevens internationally. He has also represented Mad Dogs RFC, Chicago Blaze RFC, and DePaul University RFC in the USA. Additionally, he is also a profound cyclist with a promising cycling career. H A M Z A H A Y Y A U D D I N Muhammad Ali Khan also known as ‘MAK THE TANK’ is one of Pakistan’s most celebrated Rugby players. He has represented Pakistan in 7s, 10s and 15s format in England and has also played a season for the prestigious Heath Rugby Union. He is a dominating forward, and also sometimes called the powerhouse. M U H A M M A D A L I K H A N Shazia Shabbir another celebrated Rugby Player of Pakistan. She has served the country in not only in the field but also as a coach, with the objective of promoting rugby amongst the country’s women, especially in Lodhran. S H A Z I A S H A B B I R By Areej G. Shabbir (Batch of ’22) ALI SADPARA A L E G E N D W E L O S T It has been almost a month since a group of three mountaineers went missing on one of the notoriously deadly peaks of the world: Pakistan’s own K2. As we come to terms with the presumed death of Muhammad Ali Sadpara and his colleagues, it is important to remember the life of a brave man, and to celebrate the achievements of an athlete and a versatile climber. Muhammad Ali Sadpara (1976 – 2021) was a high-altitude mountaineer, the only Pakistani to have climbed eight of the world’s fourteen highest mountains, and the first one to ascent to Nanga Parbat in winter. He was born in Sadpara, a village in the extreme north (near Skardu); the Himalayan-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Livestock farming is the main source of livelihood in the region, and the area's youth also work as porters with Western mountaineers and adventure tourists who frequent the region each year. Sadpara’s father was a low-grade government employee, and he moved to Skardu so his youngest could receive a good education. It was here that he moved onto climbing. Even as a student, Sadpara showed a passion for mountaineering; he was also a part of the college football team. A journalist, and a close friend of Sadpara, Nasib Ali writes of him, “He had the physique and the habits of an athlete and was also good in studies. He never failed a class. Since his elder brother never did well in school, his father was keen to get him a good education and that's why he moved him to Skardu.” Sadpara started his career around 2003 as a high-altitude porter and assisted in mountain-climbing expeditions. The job of a porter is to carry luggage and other objects on expeditions; and it is a largely unrecognized profession. In fact, Pakistan has a deep history of contributions to mountain expeditions by porters. Amir Mehdi was part of the first ever expeditions to both Nanga Parbat and K2 (in 1953 and 1954 respectively). He and an Italian mountaineer are famous for surviving a night in the highest open bivouac (a temporary shelter or tent) on K2. Fazal Ali was the first man ever to have scaled K2 three times (all without oxygen) and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records. These instances of accomplished porters speak to the tradition of mountaineering in Pakistan’s Northern areas, and the lack of recognition that it receives. Hamid Hussain, a tour-operator from Skardu who knew Sadpara said of him: “He was brave, and pleasant and very friendly, and he was so physically fit. We trekked together on many occasions, and while there were times when we would run out of breath and collapse, he would still jog up the steep slopes and then shout back at us, asking us to be quick." Being such a daring climber, Ali Sadpara had seen a lot adversity in his career. He had been in difficult spots before and knew the risks. In a 2019 interview, he said, "I have lost 12 of my 14 colleagues in the mountaineering business. Two of us remain, so my friends now often ask me, Ali, when are you going to die?" After a Nepalese team climbed K2 in winter, Ali Sadpara was keen to do it too (and without oxygen) because according to his son, he believed it was “our mountain”. He teamed up with his son, an Icelandic, and a Chilean mountaineer, and they left the highest camp on the evening of 4 February 2021. His son’s condition worsened as the party hit the bottleneck (a spot 300m from the summit, also known as the “death zone”). Sadpara instructed him to use an emergency oxygen cylinder, but it malfunctioned, and thus his son Sajid had to turn back. His father, along with the two other mountaineers, continued to ascend the bottleneck. Sajid saw them climb over the dangerous bottleneck, which means that they probably climbed to the summit. According to experts, most accidents happen on the descent as even the slightest misstep can send you crashing down thousands of meters. However, those who knew Sadpara, refuse to make that surmise. Locals still recall stories of his heroics; once carrying an injured goat down a mountain to take it to the vet, rather than killing it. Another theory is perhaps one of his partners was met with an accident, and Sadpara stayed to find a way to help them. Unfortunately, the details of their tragic fate may never be discovered. On last Thursday, a military-led search operation was called off, after they combed the mountain for signs of the climbers. On 18 February 2021, Ali Sadpara was declared dead; “K2 has embossed my father forever”, said Sajid.
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