Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تار) ( March 1, 1939) is one of the most famous personalities of Pakistan. He is a famous actor, writer, compere, high-altitude enthusiast and a mountaineer in his own right. Although most of his fame comes from his TV career and as a writer, Tarar is regarded as the biggest name and contributor to promoting tourism in Northern Areas of Pakistan. He has undertaken many tourism and trekking expeditions including extremely streneous treks to places like K-2 base camp and through one of the world most dangerous 'chitti buoi' glacier (chitti buoi literally means 'glacies with huge caravesses). He has written accounts of most of his treks in travelogues which, to some critics, sound more like a dramatised story or fiction. Tarar opines, to the concurrence of most adventure writers, that words and even pictures cannot encompass the astounding beauty of nature in its true spirit. As such, in one of his books, he advises his critics to live through similar experience before criticising because most people cannot dare go through such dangerous sporting experience of high altitude trekking. This advise is further testified through the respect and regard that Tarar carries in Pakistani climbing community. Pakistan's biggest mountaineering names like Nazir Sabir (first Pakistani climber on Everest and among the only few Pakistanis to have summitted K2) and Rajab Shah also regard Tarar as one of their motivations although both of these climbers hail from the Northern Areas where livelihood of a lot of people is through being high altitude guide and porters. Tarar is a household name in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and people in remotest northern areas take pride in being his hosts during his visits and expeditions.
Tarar's first book Nikley Teri Talaash Main, a travelogue of Europe was published in 1971, he has so far over forty titles to his credit which include all genre of literature; travelogues, novels, short stories and collection of his newspaper columns and Television dramas. He has been the best-seller fiction writer of Pakistan for the last fifteen years.
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