Meherban Karim

Meherban Karim (1979 to 2008) was a Pakistani mountaineer from the Shimshal Valley in Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan, known in the climbing community as Karim The Dream. He began his career in 1997 on Mingligh Sar and summited Gasherbrum II in 2003 without supplemental oxygen, Nanga Parbat in 2005, and K2 in 2008, also without supplemental oxygen. In 2007 and 2008 he took part in a winter attempt on Nanga Parbat with the Italian alpinist Simone La Terra. He reached the summit of K2 on 1 August 2008 and died the next day on the descent near the Bottleneck, one of eleven climbers killed in the 2008 K2 disaster.