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Pakistani mountaineer returns home after scaling Mount Everest

June 1, 2017

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Pakistani mountaineer Colonel (retd) Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, who became the fourth Pakistani to scale Mount Everest, reached home on Thursday (today). Earlier, he had been recovering at a hospital in Nepal.

Colonel (retd) Bhatti, along with a fellow Nepali mountaineer, had been stranded due to a lack of oxygen on base camp 4 from where they were rescued and taken to a hospital in Kathmandu, where the retired colonel remained under treatment for a week.

Upon his return, the mountaineer expressed his gratitude towards those who had he helped him achieve the momentous feat and said he was proud of being back on the Pakistani soil.

“I feel proud to have reached Pakistani soil. People helped me beyond what I could have imagined,” he said, adding that the government has traditionally not supported adventurers in the past.

Colonel (retd) Bhatti said he made a world record by spending a night on Mount Everest.

“I scaled Mount Everest due to my sheer determination,” he added.