KATHMANDU: Polish extreme skier Andrzej Bargiel made history again by successfully skiing down from the summit of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.

According to officials, Bargiel made a successful ski descent from the summit of Nanga Parbat to base camp without using supplemental oxygen, as the summit route opened this morning.

“He has now completed all five 8,000-meter peaks of Pakistan, becoming the first to make a successful ski descent from the summit point without using bottled oxygen support,” expedition officials who witnessed the scene at the base camp shared.

Last autumn, the Red Bull athlete set a world record by skiing down from the summit of Mt Everest without using supplemental oxygen. The 38-year-old has already skied down from the summit of Shishapangma (2013), Manaslu (2014), Broad Peak (2015), Gasherbrum II (2015), K2 (2018), and Gasherbrum I (2018). In 2023, he became the first to ski down all four of Karakoram's 8,000-meter peaks.

“Nanga Parbat is his eighth 8,000-meter peak from which he has made a successful summit descent,” sources added. The details of his ski descent will be known only after Red Bull officially shares the information in a couple of hours, base camp officials said, confirming the Bargiel’s ski descent feat.

“It was a really scary and thrilling moment when we saw Bargiel skiing down the ice slope of the ‘killer’ mountain,” shared other climbers who were heading from base camp to the high camps for a summit push on Nanga Parbat. Renowned climbers, including Naoko Watanabe from Japan, Iryna Karagan from Ukraine, and Canadian climber Liliya Ianovskaia, were among those present when Bargiel skied down from the top.