Raminji

Raminji or Raminj or Khairabad Raminj is a village in the Chipursan Valley of Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Raminji
village
Coordinates: 36.754°N 74.707°E / 36.754; 74.707
CountryPakistan
TerritoryGilgit Baltistan

Politics

Nazir Sabir, the famed Pakistani mountaineer who summitted Everest and K2, was born in Raminji in the Chipursan valley.[1] He began his political career from Shrine of Baba Ghundi and was elected to the Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly. He remembers his parents had fed him quite a bit of mud from Baba Ghundi hence his successes in life in some ways.

gollark: I don't think it has enough memory to store it.
gollark: It might manage a few kH/s!
gollark: Ah yes, I will go mine Krist on there, good idea.
gollark: It's a really underpowered nRF51something-based single board computer the UK government gave loads of people for free some years ago, with a 5x5 LED matrix, a few GPIO pins, a USB port, and 2.4GHz radio.
gollark: I should really find something interesting to do with that micro:bit I have lying around.

References

  1. "American Alpine Club honours Nazir Sabir". DAWN. March 3, 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2019. Born in Raminj village in the remote Chipursan Valley of Gojal, northern Hunza, Nazir Sabir started his climbing career with a Japanese expedition to the 7,284 metre high Passu peak in Gojal in 1974.
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