International Events
On the invitation of UIAA/IUCN (www.uiaa.ch/iucn/) he participated in the Indo Pakistan and UK Peace Climb in the Swiss Alps in 2002, organized to focus attention on environmental degradation in the Siachen Glacier area due to the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan.
He also attended the Int’l Congress on “Future of Mountain Sports” (www.mountainfuture.at) at Innsbruck (Austria) in 2002, centennial celebrations of American Alpine Club Salt Lake City in 2002, Sagarmatha Golden Jubilee celebrations in Kathmandu Nepal in 2003.
He was a delegate at an International workshop on Food Security and Cross Border Tourism jointly organized by GTZ and AKF in Dushanbe in 2004.
For over two decades he has been representing Pakistan and delivered lectures on the tourism potential of Pakistan at international forums and Alpine Clubs in Japan, USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Austria, Canada, Nepal, South Korea, Hong Kong, Tajikistan, Poland, Slovakia, Malaysia, France and Italy. He was invited to be a jury member at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Canada in 1996, Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) in 2002, Bratislava Mountain Film Festival in 2002, and was invited as chief guest at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival KIMFF in 2006 and the Trento Mountain Film Festival in 2003. He was honored as the chief guest at the Kathmandu Film Festival in 2006. He represented Alpine Club of Pakistan at the International Mountain Summit (IMS) Tyrol in Nov 2009 and attended the Graz Mountain Film Festival in 2009. He collaborated with Pakistan Consulate and VIMFF in organizing an event “Zoom on Pakistan” and did a slide talk on his spiritual experiences on his climbs featured as "Pilgrimage to the Higher Heavens" to a keen audiences on Dec 01, 2009. He also spoke to the Canadian Pakistani community at the eve of Eid-e-Milad celebration organized by the Pakistan High commission.
Nazir Sabit took part at a mountain environment related conference at Golden Colorado from July 31, 2010 that addressed the huge challenges of the exit strategies in the mountain wilderness around the globe.
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