This was organized by the Italian Government, under the leadership of the Italian Federal Minister, Gianni Alemanno, Gerygory Alimano and Lino Lacedelli, the first mountaineer to climb K2 in 1953. On the eve of this great ceremony Mehar Dill Khan Baabai, of the CAAB, was the world's first 12-year-old mountaineer to reach the K2 base camp.