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Nadhira Al Harthy failed her first mountain in 2015, then reached Everest's summit four years later. On July 30, 2026, an avalanche below Camp III on…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 9, 2026
In 2015, an Omani schoolteacher led a group of students up Mount Kilimanjaro and turned back a few hundred metres from the top, beaten by altitude sickness. It should have been the end of the story. Instead, Nadhira Al Harthy spent the next two years training…
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The takeaway Al Harthy was an elite, extensively trained mountaineer on a technical 8,000m peak, a different category of risk from a teahouse trek to Everest Base Camp, which involves no technical climbing and a well-documented, low fatality rate. But her…
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