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Sep 2022
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Episode 122 - NAILA KIANI

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Mountaineer Naila Kiani is the second Pakistani woman (by three hours!) to summit K2 - the first to do it at the first attempt. 

Naila Kiani only took un mountaineering in 2018! She is a banker by profession, based in Dubai, and also a boxer! In 2021, she set a record by becoming the first Pakistani woman to climb an 8,000-metre mountain when she climbed Gasherbrum-II, the world’s thirteenth highest mountain at 8,035 metres.

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