Nadhira Al Harthy

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Nadhira Al Harthy
Bornc.1978
Nationality Oman
Occupationcivil servant
Employer Oman's Ministry of Education
Known forfirst Omani woman to climb Everest

Nadhira Al Harthy or Nadhira Alharthy (born c.1978) is an Omani civil servant and rock climber. She was the second person from Oman and the first Omani woman to climb Mount Everest.

Life

Al Harthy was born in about 1978. [1] She went to Rustaq College of Education [2] and she has a degree in geography. [1] She worked for four years as a geography teacher [2] before she became an Omani civil servant who works for Oman's Ministry of Education. [3]

First Arab woman to climb Ama Dablam in the Himalayas Ama Dablam and the Himalayas, Mountains of Nepal.jpg
First Arab woman to climb Ama Dablam in the Himalayas

In 2017 she set herself the goal of climbing the world's highest peak. She had met Khalid al-Siyabi who was the only Omani person at the time to have climbed Everest which he did in 2010. He came to the ministry where she was director of citizenship and she was inspired. She went to the gym each week [4] and she started running and climbing mountains in Oman. [1] In 2018 she took part in the 130km Ultra-Trail Mont Blanc. She did the ultra-marathon in Oman but had to retire before she completed 100 km. [1] She was training under the guidance of her mentor, Khalid al-Siyabi, and for a long time her ambition to climb Everest was a secret. She told her own family of the plan just two months before she set out. [4]

She was the second person from Oman and the first Omani woman to climb Mount Everest in 2019. This was a year that the queues on the mountain to climb it became a news story [1] and the year that her mentor died. [5] She was part of a team which included Mona Shahab of Saudi Arabia and the Lebanonese climbers Joyce Azzam and Nelly Attar. She got to the summit on the anniversary of her mentor's ascent and she left his name at the top. [4] The achievement was described as being by an "all-woman Arab team" [1] and it was filmed by the Canadian climber Elia Saikaly. [6]

She has since become the first woman from the Arab world to climb the Nepalese summit of Ama Dablam. This was a peak that had defeated her before, when she was training for her Everest ascent. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "In conversation with Nadhira Al Harthy". euronews. 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  2. 1 2 "The Unstoppable Nadhira Alharthy".
  3. 1 2 Sangeetha (2021-01-16). "Nadhira does it again". Muscat Daily. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  4. 1 2 3 Haq, Sana Noor (2021-06-16). "Nadhira Alharthy: Omani climber wants to 'die empty' in her quest to share knowledge". CNN. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  5. ↑ "First Omani to scale Mount Everest dies". Saudi Gazette. April 29, 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "VIDEO: Saudi mountaineer Mona Shahab on the charitable cause that helped drive her to the summit of Everest". Arab News. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
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