Pakistani alpinist Shah Daulat dies at 31 in Hunza fall
The Shimshal guide summited K2 in 2022 and three more 8,000-metre peaks by 2025; he fell nearly 400 metres while ice climbing near Khyber village.
Shah Daulat, a mountain guide from Shimshal who summited K2 and three other 8,000-metre peaks in four years, died on February 6 in a fall while ice climbing near Khyber village in Gojal, Hunza. He was 31.
Climbing Magazine reported that Daulat fell close to 400 metres. Local volunteers recovered his body, which was taken to his home village of Shimshal for burial.
Daulat began guiding with the Karakoram Mountain Guides Association in 2022. He summited K2, at 8,611 metres the second-highest mountain in the world, that year. Nanga Parbat (8,126 metres) followed in 2023 without supplemental oxygen, Gasherbrum II in 2024, and Gasherbrum I in 2025, again without supplemental oxygen. That was his fourth 8,000-metre summit in as many years. He also climbed Laila Peak, at 6,096 metres in the Hushe Valley, in 2025.
He skied as well, and competed at Malam Jabba in 2022.
His cousin, the mountaineer Samina Baig, wrote on Facebook that Daulat had achieved a great deal in a short life. "Shah Daulat was a true gem in our family, a cherished younger brother (cousin) taken from us far too soon," she wrote. "May he rest in peace among the mountains he loved."
Ibadat, a relative, told Climbing Magazine the family was proud of his progress from mountain guide to climber of some of the world's hardest peaks. "He dedicated his life to the mountains and was deeply passionate about climbing," Ibadat said.
In September, the villages of Shimshal and Khyber jointly installed a life-sized memorial sculpture of Daulat near the Khyber Ice Wall, which was renamed the Shah Daulat Ice Wall.
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