Veteran mountaineer Lt. Col. Manzoor Hussain (retired), has been unanimously elected as President of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.



http://explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=19725

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"Karrar Haidri (left) was selected as Member of the Executive Council for the fourth year, and was awarded for his excellent performance at the ACP by former Gov. Brig Amir Gulistan (right). Nazir Sabir in background. "

Nice, Karrar!!

Oh, I thought this would be about Obama.

Congrats to the Col.

"Karrar Haidri (left) was selected as Member of the Executive Council for the fourth year, and was awarded for his excellent performance at the ACP by former Gov. Brig Amir Gulistan (right). Nazir Sabir in background. "

Nice, Karrar!!

Lolli & JasonH Thank you very much.

I never thought about it really, but I assume an alpine club in Pakistan ought to be pretty big, since you have all these fantastic mountains right there in your backyard.

Lolli Thanks for Sharing your nice views. Yes Alpine club of Pakistan has its members all over Pakistan, ACP the national Mountaineering and Climbing Federation of Pakistan established in 1974 for the promotion of mountaineering and mountain related activities in Pakistan.
Alpine Club of Pakistan is affiliated with Pakistan Sports Board and functions under the aegis of Tourism Division, Government of Pakistan.
It represents Pakistan on the Switzerland based International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation - Union Internationale Des Associations D'Alpinisme (UIAA) and is member on its Council. ACP is the founding member of the Union of Asian Alpine Associations (UAAA) and is also part of the Himalayan Mountaineering Countries Forum.
Alpine Club of Pakistan acts as an advisor to all governmental/non governmental organizations on matters relating to mountains and mountaineering. It is actively working on various programmes for the preservation of most threatened mountain areas of Pakistan in collaboration with IUCN, EV-K2-CNR and other international agencies.
Pakistan is endowed with one of the richest collection of high mountains having 720 peaks above six thousand metres with 162 peaks above seven thousand metres and five peaks above eight thousand metres including second highest pyramid - Chogori - the K2 8611-M.

Karrar Haidri wrote:Pakistan is endowed with one of the richest collection of high mountains having 720 peaks above six thousand metres with 162 peaks above seven thousand metres and five peaks above eight thousand metres including second highest pyramid - Chogori - the K2 8611-M.

That is so very cool.