Brother to brother, shoulder to shoulder, we walked together to the summit whilst singing the Nepali national anthem. We all stopped around 10m before reaching the summit to huddle and make our final steps together as a team to mark this historical feat .. 1/4 #K2winter pic.twitter.com/P2kCwRy1Vn
— Nirmal Purja MBE (@nimsdai) January 24, 2021
The man leading this group namely Nirmal Purja is very happy for the warm welcome that peolpe of Pakistan did on their arrival. See his following tweet about this;
Me and my entire team are beyond happy and humbled to have received such a pleasant warm welcome on arrival at Skardu and Islamabad. We are overjoyed with emotions and our hearts are full of gratitude. Many thank you to all our Pakistani family for making us feel at home. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/sU1dR7cqfx
— Nirmal Purja MBE (@nimsdai) January 23, 2021
He further said 'smaller things matter in big mountains. He said; he is very happy from the support team including cooks, logistics, camping and porters. All these things are the backbone of reaching heights where every things seems difficult from wearing heavy jackets, coats, shoes to carrying bags and climbing things. The wearing jackets are not like bomber jacket; they are very heavy and warm clothing apparel for climbing mountains.
This team of Nepali young guys have made the history in this brutal cold of winter season. Just take a look of them in the following file photo;