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.
“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.