A nine-member mountaineering team from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has successfully climbed the 6,050-metre Thalo Zom peak in the Hindu Kush mountain range. With this challenging climb, the climbers created history.
The team began the expedition on 9 July 2026 and reached the summit on 17 July after eight hard days. They travelled through the remote areas of Kumrat and Chitral. Along the way, the climbers crossed glaciers, deep crevasses and steep icy slopes. The final push to the top took nearly eight hours of continuous climbing. Once at the summit, they proudly raised Pakistan’s national flag.
Thalo Zom is known as one of the least climbed and most technical peaks in the region. It was first summited by an Australian team in 1971. An Italian-led group made the second recorded climb in 2019. The latest success by local climbers shows growing skill in high-altitude mountaineering in Pakistan.
The team members included Ruhullah, Umar Khan, Intikhab Khan, Nauman Sami, Izzatullah Shah, Saeed Akhtar, Naeem Khan, Fawad Khan and Rawaz Ali. They thanked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority for technical support that helped make the climb possible.
