Samina Khayal Baig (Urdu: ثمینہ خیال بیگ; born 19 September 1990)[1] is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014. She is the first Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits. She climbed Mt. Everest at the age of 21.[2][3][4]
Samina was the first to climb the peak Chashkin Sar (above 6,000 meters) in Pakistan in 2010, which was later renamed Samina Peak after her.[5][6] She reached the summit of ‘Koh-i-Brobar’ (‘Mount Equality’) in 2011.[6] An attempt at the seven kilometer high Spantik Peak ended in failure for Baig, due to adverse weather conditions.[6]
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Baig comes from Shimshal village in HunzaGojal, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, and was trained in mountaineering from the age of 15 by her brother, Mirza Ali.[3][4] She is a student of Arts and began climbing when she was merely four years old.[7] Besides the Himalayas, Baig has been employed as a mountain guide and expedition leader in the Hindu Kush and the peaks of Karakoram. Baig has been a professional climber since 2009.[3]Special Communications Organization (SCO), a telecom operator in Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan has appointed her as its Brand Ambassador. The contract signing ceremony was held at headquarters Special Communications Organization Rawalpindi. Maj Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa and other officials of SCO were present on the occasion
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