PAKISTAN · RECORD
17 MAY 2026
Shehroze Kashif:
The Broad Boy of Pakistan
Broad Peak at seventeen. Everest and K2 at nineteen. All fourteen eight-thousanders before he turned twenty-three. Shehroze Kashif is the youngest climber Pakistan has ever produced — and the North is his home ground.
Born on 11 March 2002 in Lahore, Shehroze Kashif first saw climbers at the age of thirteen, on a hiking trip in the mountains of northern Pakistan. The seed took instantly. Within four years he was standing on top of an eight-thousander — and he chose to do it on Broad Peak.
The Broad Boy Is Born
On 14 July 2019, at just seventeen years old, Shehroze summited Broad Peak — 8,051 metres of the Karakoram, the very mountain this journal honours. The ascent earned him the nickname that has followed him ever since: “The Broad Boy.” For Pakistan, it was a signal that the next generation had arrived.
Everest and K2 in One Year
In May 2021 he became the youngest Pakistani to summit Everest. In July of the same year — a bare two months later — he stood on top of K2, becoming the youngest person in the world to climb the Savage Mountain. He was nineteen. Few climbers have ever done Everest and K2 within a single summer; fewer still at his age.
The Fourteen
After Everest and K2 came Manaslu, then Kangchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu in 2022, Nanga Parbat and the Gasherbrums, then Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and Cho Oyu in 2023. On 9 October 2024, at the age of twenty-two, Shehroze summited Shishapangma — his fourteenth eight-thousander — becoming the youngest Pakistani ever to complete the entire roster of fourteen peaks. The complete list of the fourteen →
A Flag for the North
Shehroze carries the flag of Pakistan to the roof of the world, and he does it with the patience his predecessor Ali Sadpara taught the country to admire. He is the living answer to a question the North always asks: who comes next? The Broad Boy answered it — he was here, on Broad Peak, when he was seventeen, and he never really left. The hero who showed him the way →
“It was beyond everything.” — Shehroze Kashif, on standing at the top of Broad Peak at seventeen