Babar Ali Becomes First Bangladeshi To Conquer Lhotse

After conquering the highest peak in the world just after two days, 33-year-old Babar Ali reached the top of Mount Lhotse (8516 meters) as first Bangladeshi.  He reached the peak of Lhotse at around 5:50 am local time (6:04 am Bangladesh time) today (21 May), Babar's organization Vertical Dreamers, confirmed the matter to the media.

Meanwhile Babar Ali Becomes first Bangladeshi To Conquer Lhotse. 

Earlier, Babar became the sixth Bangladeshi to raise the red-green flag atop Mount Everest on Sunday (19 May) at 8:30 am local time in Nepal. This marks the first successful Bangladeshi expedition to Everest in the last 11 years.

Vertical Dreamers on their Facebook page informed about Babar Ali's Lhotse mountain victory and said, "An unprecedented and exciting chapter has been written today in the history of mountaineering in Bangladesh. And the writer is our dream charioteer-Babar Ali...This is the first Lhotse summit win for any man of Bangladesh. He was the first to conquer two 8 thousand peak summits in the same expedition. ...Babar now begins to descend. The main festival will be held only when Babar reaches the base camp."

As first Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Lhotse and achieve the remarkable feat of climbing two eight-thousand-meter peaks in the same expedition.

Babar Ali from Chittagong become the sixth Bangladeshi to conquer the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest. 

He reached the summit at 8:45am on Sunday and raised the red and green flag of Bangladesh. Although mainly known for various adventurous activities, Babar is a doctor by profession. 

He is the second son of Liakat Ali and Lutfunnahar Begum from the Burishchar area of Hathazari, Chittagong. Babar completed his Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) as a student of the 51st batch at Chittagong Medical College.

Although he worked as a public health officer for a while, he left the job due to being denied leave for a previous expedition He is a former medical officer with Emerging Infections at icddr,b. He was also the former medical officer at IOM - UN Migration. 

Babar’s journey began on April 1. After completing the preparatory work, three days later, he flew from Kathmandu to Lukla, one of the most dangerous airports in the world. 

Babar has also become the first Bangladeshi to conquer two Eight Thousanders - a group of 14 mountains recognized by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than 8,000 meters (26,247 ft) in height above sea level, - in a single expedition.

Babar reached Everest Base Camp on April 10 on the path of hundreds of legendary mountaineers. After this, Babar's dream journey started from the base camp at midnight on April 14. 

On the first day, he went straight to Camp-2, which is situated at an altitude of 21,300 feet.