Hunzaiite Abdul Joshi, on Monday, successfully scaled the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8,848 metres) and raised Pakistan’s flag on top of the world.

Thirty-eight-year-old Joshi started his final summit from Camp 4 last night at around 9pm PKT and reached the top on Sunday near 5am PKT.

Known as “pathfinder” among mountaineers due to his extraordinary skills, Joshi was part of the team led by Mingma G.

He is the eighth Pakistani to successfully scale Mount Everest. Nazir Sabir, Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, Hassan Sadpara, Mirza Ali Baig, Samina Baig, Shehroze Kashif and Sirbaz Ali Khan have also summitted the highest peak in the world.

In April last year, Joshi, along with Sirbaz Khan, had summitted 8,091 metres Annapurna peak.

His first peak was Manglik Sar at 6,050 metres.

He caught everyone’s attention when he led a team for the first-ever successful summit of Passu Cones in Gilgit.

Mountaineers say that Joshi is one of the most skilled climbers in the country but he mainly focuses on unclimbed peaks and finding paths to summit.

Joshi is likely to return to the base camp on May 18.

Energy technology developer Octopus Energy Group has announced a partnership with Xlinks to build a subsea interconnector to deliver 3.6GW renewable energy from Morocco to the UK.

The project will generate 10.5GW of zero-carbon electricity from the sun and wind in Morocco to deliver 3.6GW of reliable energy for an average of over 20 hours a day.

This is enough to provide low-cost, clean power to over 7 million British homes by 2030.

The partnership will speed up the UK’s transition to net zero with Xlinks laying four 3,800km-long subsea cables to connect a renewable energy farm in the Moroccan desert with Devon in South West England.

The project aims to diversify UK supply routes and boost the country’s energy security.

It is currently in the development phase, undertaking economic, environmental and archaeological impact assessments. It is scheduled to become operational in 2027.

The Garabit Viaduct is an impressive railway arch bridge which was once considered to be among the largest and highest railway arch bridges in the world, it is located near the near Ruynes-en-Margeride Commune of the Cantal Department, within the French Republic.

Spanning over the Truyère River, this viaduct is 565 meters (1,854 feet) long, and it was constructed between 1882 and 1884 according to the design of the French civil engineer, Gustave Eiffel.

The principal arch that spans over the river is 165 meters (541 feet) long, and it is this huge truss-arch which narrows as it rises is the most interesting feature of the entire structure.

Namely, instead of building the structure with thick, solid beams, Gustave Eiffel used beams which had a lot of holes in the shape of triangles, called truss.

This was done in order for the bridge to weigh less, and most importantly the gusty wind in the narrow valley would blow right through them, making Garabit Viaduct very stable.

Opened officially in November 1885 with a single track, this impressive structure was closed only once in its long history, where on September 2009 some cracks were discovered in one of the foundation piles.

After a month, a safety inspection declared it safe to be used once again, however, this time with a speed limit of 10 km per hour (6 mi per hour), which confirms that Gustave Eiffel has created an architectural and in the same time majestic masterpiece which is well known around the world for its durability and capability.