TDS Desk:

Bangladeshi mountaineer Taufiq Ahmed Tamal has successfully scaled ‘Manaslu,’ the eighth-highest peak in the world. He reached the summit at 3 am on Wednesday, September 24.

At the peak of Manaslu, he hoisted Bangladesh’s red-and-green national flag. The news was confirmed by Fazlur Rahman Shamim, founder and admin of Altitude Hunter, the organizer of the expedition.

Tamal set out on September 1 with the goal of conquering this world’s eighth-highest peak. At a ceremony organized at the Bishwo Sahitya Kendra’s Cultural Development Center in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s first female Everest summiteer, Nishat Majumder, handed him the national flag to carry on his journey.

Before this, Taufiq Ahmed had been actively involved in trekking and high-altitude mountaineering at home and abroad for the past 14 years. He also received basic and advanced mountaineering training from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in India. Earlier, he climbed seven peaks between 5,000 and 6,000 meters and two peaks above 6,500 meters.

Among his notable achievements are becoming the first Bangladeshi to summit Tharpu Chuli in a winter expedition, and the first Bangladeshi to conquer Bhagirathi-2 (6,512 meters). In addition, last year he successfully scaled Mount Ama Dablam (6,814 meters), one of the world’s most technically challenging peaks.

It is worth noting that Manaslu is the eighth-highest mountain in the world, standing at 8,163 meters (26,781 feet) above sea level. It is part of the Mansiri Himal in the Nepalese Himalayas in west-central Nepal. The first successful ascent of Manaslu was made on May 9, 1956, by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu, members of a Japanese expedition team.

For the next 15 years, no climbers reached the summit. In 1971, another Japanese team conquered Manaslu, followed by American climbers who summited in 1997. Although it ranks eighth in height, Manaslu is considered the fourth most dangerous mountain in the world.