(MENAFN) A hiker who resides in Dubai is now the first Pakistani woman to climb over eight of the highest mountains in the world following hitting the peak of Broad Peak, on Pakistan's borderlines with China.

Naila Kiani, who is 37 years old, hit the top of the mountain in the Gasherbrum chain of Baltistan on Thursday. which is one of the globe's 14 heights that are taller than 8,000 meters.

Kiani had already scaled the nearby K2, Mount Everest, Lhotse and Annapurna in Nepal, and Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I as well as II, which are also in Pakistan.

Broad Peak is the world’s 12th tallest heights and counts to a notable list of peaks for Ms. Kiani, who started hiking in 2021, few months following giving birth to her second daughter and leaving her career in finance.

With her recent achievement, she accomplished 3 records in one day, becoming the first Pakistani woman to hit the 8,051-meter top of Broad Peak, and the first to scale all of Pakistan’s mountains beyond 8,000 meters, as well as the first to hike eight out of fourteen of the highest mountains in the world.

Broad Peak was first scaled in 1957 and is regarded as one of the most difficult ascents in hiking, because of its dangerous upper sectors and a merciless 1.5-kilometre summit ridge that is mainly treacherous in bad weather. It has taken the lives of twenty hikers up to this day.

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