Records & People

The First Omani Woman to Summit Everest Died Chasing All 14 of the World's Highest Peaks

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 Dawa Sherpa · Aug 9, 2026

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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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What this means for trekkers

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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