Srinagar, Jun 11: An eight-member team of Kashmiri mountaineers successfully scaled the 4,620-metre Mt Sentinel in the Sind Valley on June 6, claiming to have become the first Kashmiris to reach the summit and the first climbers to do so since a British mountaineer ascended the peak in 1945, as per a statement issued on Thursday. The team included SaqibShafi, Faik Aijaz Pattahoo, Muzakir Khan, Yasir Khan, Faizan Shafi, Adnan Altaf, Salman Altaf and Arun Jasrotia. The statement adds that on June 6, 2026, at exactly 11 in the morning, eight men from Kashmir broke that silence on the summit of Mt Sentinel for the first time in eighty-one years.