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Pakistan plans to set up world-class mountaineering school

Islamabad, July 22 (UNI) Romina Khurshid Alam, coordinator to the Pakistani prime minister on climate change and environmental coordination, said that the country plans to set up a world-class mountaineering school in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.

Chairing a meeting here, she said the school would have structured training and educational facilities specifically tailored to mountaineering, sherpa training, and sustainable tourism practices in Pakistan's north to promote world-class, environmental-friendly mountaineering, climbing and mountain tourism, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination said in a statement on Sunday.
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