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Mountaineers Naila Kiani and Sirbaz Khan became the first Pakistani duo to summit the 8,201-metre-tall Cho Oyu \u2014 the world\u2019s sixth-highest peak in China\u2019s Tibet \u2014 on Monday.<\/p>\n
The mountain is located on the Nepal-Tibet border 20 kilometres west of Mount Everest in the Mahalangur range. Cho Oyu means \u201cTurquoise Goddess\u201d in Tibetan.<\/p>\n
The duo reached the summit earlier today at 12:30pm (Nepal Time) as part of the expedition led by Imagine Nepal. Khan made the climb without using any supplementary oxygen.<\/p>\n
They successfully reached the summit just five days after crossing the Tibet border from Nepal.<\/p>\n
Kiani became the first Pakistani woman climber to summit 10 peaks above 8,000m and the only Pakistani to ascend seven peaks above 8,000m in six months.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Khan became the only Pakistani to summit 13 peaks above 8,000m with today\u2019s success and the only one to conquer 10 mountains above 8,000m without the use of supplementary oxygen.<\/p>\n
Last month, the two had also successfully completed the ascent<\/a> of the world\u2019s eighth-highest peak, 8,163m-tall Mt Manaslu, in Nepal. Subsequently, the duo had arrived in China with the aim of conquering both Cho Oyu and Shishapangma.<\/p>\n