Mirza Ali Baig

Mirza Ali Baig is a high-altitude Mountaineer and the 1st Pakistani man to summit all 7 highest peaks in 7 continents………

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QUICK FACTS

Full Name: Mirza Ali Baig

Nationality: Pakistani

Born: July 10, 1983

Age: 36 years

Born Place: Shimshal

Gender: Male

Spouse: Samiya Rafiq (m. 2017)

BIOGRAPHY

Mirza Ali Baig (born 10 July 1983) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer. He is the first Pakistani man to summit all seven highest peaks on seven continents. Also, Mirza is a professional tourism expert. He is the pioneer who introduced extreme sports to women in Pakistan and made several documentaries related to the extreme adventure in Pakistan particularly women in mountaineering and outdoor.

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER of Mirza Ali Baig

Baig grew up and was raised in the remote village of Shimshal. After passing his 8th grade exams in the village, he moved to the town of Gulmit for high school. Mirza Ali while in high school worked with foreign trekking groups and expeditions as a porter. He had his first mountain climb at the young age of 16 at Mingligh Sar (6050m) in Shimshal Pamir. Since then he has lived out his love for the outdoors in multiple climbing expeditions, besides continuing his education in Karachi where he acquired his bachelor of Commerce from Karachi University.

Working in different capacity in tourism industry, he joined his other cousins to work as high altitude porter. He observed there are less local people exploring the mountains, valleys, passes and beautiful glaciers of Pakistan. He also didn’t find any major local expeditions or mountain related tours in Gilgit-Baltistan, most ironic he found women participation in outdoor sports such as mountain expeditions almost zero.

He also worked for women empowerment and gender equality through mountain adventure. His lifetime achievement was when his sister reached the summit of Mt. Everest on 19 May 2013 being the first female from Pakistan to do so. Mirza Ali is also a good public motivational speak and a young entrepreneur as well.

7 Summits 7 Continents

After Everest expedition for Gender equality and women empowerment, he created yet another project 7 Summits 7 Continents. For Adventure diplomacy, connecting people through Mountains, thus Mirza could bring 5 embassies together to be support group as “Adventure Diplomacy Support Group” Mirza Ali went on this Diplomacy expedition with his sister to conquer the 7 highest peaks in 7 continents and within eight months Samina Baig conquered all 7 Mountains while Mount Everest remains to be conquered by Mirza Ali, If Mirza Ali conquers Mount Everest they going to be the first siblings accomplish this feat. Mirza Ali is trying to show positive face of Pakistan and brave face of Pakistani women.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 4 July 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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