Mountain festival: Capital’s girls scale stone walls in Margalla
ISLAMABAD: Maham Tariq scrambled adult a angled stone face during a Jasmine Corner of a Daman-e-Koh in a Margalla Hills National Park as dozens of other immature climbers collected underneath, examination in astonishment a technique being employed by her to make it to a top.
The eager practice was partial of a stone climbing eventuality on Saturday to flog off a 6th annual Pakistan Mountain Festival, hold to commemorate International Mountain Day.
The week-long festival has been organized by a Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan), and Saturday’s stone climbing eventuality during Daman-e-Koh was organized in partnership with a Adventure Club.
The eventuality was hold to concede youngsters to try their intensity and to plea themselves in a severe environment. While those carrying knowledge with climbing attempted to mount adult a stone face, those who were new were given a simple lessons on climbing.
After expertly handling her approach adult a stone face, Tariq pronounced stone climbing helps boost her certainty and ready her for unfavourable situations.
Saba Nazir, one of a climbers, pronounced that parents customarily do not concede their daughters to take adult sports such as stone climbing , adding that girls should be given equal opportunities play all forms of sports.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 4th, 2016.
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