So there I have been watching all those mountaineering docs for years now – the first one I saw is still one of the best and most fav – Touching the Void – a true story of mountaineering event happened in Peruvian Andes in 1985. Since then I try not to miss any mountaineering related docs. Fast forward, last week when I was watching K2 – The Killer Summit, I wondered, was there any Bangladeshi ever climbed K2 or the Mt. Everest? A quick google search gave me name of Musa Ibrahim – first Bangladeshi to climb Mt. Everest. He reached the summit on May 23, 2010 and hoisted flag of Bangladesh there. With that Bangladesh became the 67th Mount Everest conquering country.
Few more searches gave me the following names:
- Musa Ibrahim (1st man) May 23, 2010
- M. A. Muhit (2nd man), May 21, 2011 (climbed twice!)
- Nishat Mazumder (1st woman) May 19, 2012
- Wasfia Nazreen (2nd woman) May 26, 2012 (youngest Everest conqueror from Bangladesh, at 29)
- Mohammed Khaled Hossain (aka Sajal Khaled) May 21, 2013 (died while descending from Mount Everest the same day)
I was curious about what these guys do at their daily lives? What are their professions? Musa Ibrahim is a journalist, Muhit is a marketing executive of an NGO, Nishsat is an accountant, Wasfia is a social worker, and Khaled was a film director. They are all ordinary guys with one exception – they all have a big extra-ordinary vision for them and for their country!
I don’t know if any other Bangladeshis who have reached the top of world. I will add them if I know their names!