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Pakistan Youth Outreach

A Youth Mountaineering Education Program


Program Objectives


To explore and seek out at adventure is at the heart of human evolution and time spent interacting with nature can bring about a positive impact on human nature and behavior, and therefore create a love and respect for all of life on Earth.  Unfortunately, mountaineering in Pakistan has never received much promotion or recognition as a sport. Since this is the case, this program will be putting its efforts into introducing and promoting an awareness of mountain sports to youth at the grass root level.  It is expected and believed that the long term outcome will be very bright and realistic if the steps for this program proceed as expected. Government and Ministry assistance and alpine club involvement will count greatly in the future to help broaden the activities of this program.


First, involvement and education of youth in mountain adventure and nature encourages creativity in a youth’s mind and can change the mind set.  The hope of this project is that by involving youth and encouraging a new way of thinking about the adventure potential in the country, an awareness of adventure and a respect of the natural environment and wilderness will result.


Second, Pakistan has enormous adventure and exploration possibilities but this field has never been encouraged at any level to produce good athletes for Pakistan.


With this in mind, the main focus of this program will be:


  1. Educating youth about mountain adventure
  2. Education about mountains and mountain ranges around the world as well as those in Pakistan.
  3. Awareness about Global warming and Climate change and impact on glaciers and mountains.
  4. Awareness of mountain and adventure trekking
  5. Awareness and education about environment and wilderness.
  6. Awareness of glaciers and exploration of new passes
  7. Education and awareness of mountain settlements, their life styles, and standards of living and the   impact mountains can have on the people
  8. Providing entertainment to youth and encouraging a friendly environment among youth and nature.
  9. Presentations of mountain adventure and trekking adventure, video clips and photo presentations in   schools, colleges, and universities.
  10. Special encouragement of women’s adventure and mountaineering.
  11. Encouragement of joint local expeditions to small mountains.
  12. Since mountaineering is a costly sport, it is, unfortunately, not possible for every interested   individual to take part in it. Knowing this, it is the aim of PYO to build understanding and highlight the   scope with local and multinational organizations to sponsor future events in general and women’s   expeditions and adventure activities in particular.

   

Lectures and Presentations:


After each expedition that is planned, a presentation will be made at top schools, colleges, and universities.  These presentations would also include video documentaries as a part of the entertainment program.


One of the main objectives of this program will be to educate and bring awareness about global warming and climate change and its impact on glaciers, mountains, and mountain settlements to youth and others.  We also seek to bring a message of peace and green peace for the world!


The aim of the program is to encourage women’s adventure in the country and to promote it at a grass root level, arrange basic mountaineering courses, and to organize women’s expeditions to small mountains higher than 6000 m. The expeditions will include making documentaries, photo presentations, and interviews of the women mountaineers in the newspapers and TV channels so as to encourage other women of the same interest, since permission for the women of Pakistan is still the biggest issue.  The objective is also to create awareness and relationships between women mountaineers and national and multinational companies to sponsor women’s adventure events, particularly women’s expeditions.


This program will cover all different ranges in the world and the highest mountains in each as well as other information such as:


  1. Name
  1. Locations
  2. Heights
  3. First attempt (summiteers/year)
  4. No. of summiteers
  1. No. of deaths

The lectures about glaciers will focus on identifying various glaciers in the world, the world’s longest glaciers, and the most famous glaciers.  The lectures will cover topics such as a glacier size, location, and mountain range.


This presentation will focus on the world’s greatest mountaineers, their careers in the mountains, their successes and failures, their great achievements, and their life stories.


This presentation will focus on the mountains and glaciers of Pakistan.


Since passes are also considered a part of mountain adventure, exploring new passes and crossing huge passes are then also considered a part of a mountain adventure.  This presentation will cover the famous mountain passes of Pakistan that connect different areas.