ISLAMABAD: Naila Kayani climbed Mount Everest, becoming the second first Pakistani woman to climb the world’s highest peak.
Kayani became the first Pakistani woman to climb five peaks above 8,000 meters.
Naila Kayani, a Pakistani banker in Dubai, is also an amateur boxer who is the mother of two children. At the same time, she also has an appetite for climbing mountains. She is engaged in climbing the world’s highest peaks from time to time.
In 2018, pictures of Naila Kayani’s wedding at the K2 base camp went viral on social media.
In July 2022, Naila Kayani scaled K2 and 8,068-meter-high Gesherbrum I, and in 2023 climbed the 8,091-meter-high Annapurna.
She climbed the world’s second-highest peak after Pakistan’s female climber Samina Baig. Now she has also climbed Mount Everest’s highest peak, becoming the second Pakistani woman to do so.
Samina Baig from Gilgit-Baltistan is the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Samina Baig climbed Mount Everest at the age of 21.
Samina Baig scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest in 2013.