<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Wasfia Nazreen early today became the first person from Bangladesh to scale Pakistan's notorious K2, the world's second highest mountain, her expedition told AFP.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wasfia is mostly known for being the only Bangladeshi and first Bangalee in the world to climb the Seven Summits -- the highest mountains of every continent.</div><div><br></div><div>Her expedition, sponsored by Renata Limited, consisted of some of the strongest and most renowned climbers in the world -- MingmaTenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja.</div><div><br></div><div>She began her push for the summit on Sunday. The 39-year-old reached the top of the 8,611m (28,251ft) peak early today.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan is home to five of the world's 14 mountains higher than 8,000m, and climbing them all is considered the ultimate achievement of any mountaineer.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides being far more technically difficult to climb than Everest, K2 has notoriously fickle weather, and has only been scaled by 425 people since 1954 -- including around 20 women.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 6,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top in 1953 -- some of them multiple times.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/TR</div>