Fatima Deryan () is a Kuwaiti-born Lebanese mountaineer and activist, who currently lives in

Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

, United Arab Emirates. She is the first Lebanese woman to summit the

Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...

which she achieved it in 2019. A year which marked many deadliest

Mount Everest expeditions Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

Biography

Deryan was born in

Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...

and her family moved to Lebanon when she was two years old. Then her family located permanently in Dubai when she was nine years old.

Career

She announced her plans in early 2019 to expedite Everest and started the campaign in March 2019 to summit the

which was one of her goals of reaching the target of

Seven Summits The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents. On 30 April 1985, Richard Bass became the first climber to reach the summit of all seven. In January 2023, ''Climbing (magazine), Climbing'' said "Today, t ...

. Despite living in the UAE, she represented her home country Lebanon during the summit. She successfully climbed the Everest on 22 May 2019 making her the first Lebanese woman and second ever person from Lebanon after Maxime Chaya to achieve the feat while also went onto become only the second Arab woman after Suzanne Al Houby of Palestine to achieve the milestone. This was the sixth out of seven mountains in different continents as a part of the Seven Summits which was successfully climbed by her following

Denali Denali (), federally designated as Mount McKinley, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land, measuring . On p. 20 of Helm ...

in North America,

Kilimanjaro Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at above sea level and above its plateau base. It is also the highest volcano i ...

in Africa, Elbrus in Europe,

Puncak Jaya Puncak Jaya (; literally "Victorious Peak", Amungme: ''Nemangkawi Ninggok'') or Carstensz Pyramid (, , ) on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of , is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in Indones ...

in Oceania and

Aconcagua Aconcagua () is a mountain in the Principal Cordillera of the Andes mountain range, in Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is the highest mountain in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in both the Western Hemisphere and the ...

in South America. In 2018, she founded an online portal for services in the cleaning industry called Yalla Cleaning in UAE. In October 2019, she also supported and joined the Lebanese demonstrations calling for major economic and political reform in Lebanon. In the same month, she also campaigned under the slogan "Wadi hike" regarding creating awareness about the breast cancer in Dubai.

References

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