Zed Al Refai
 | This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject. (January 2011) |
Zed Al Refai | |
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 Zed Al Refai | |
| Born | October 28, 1966 Kuwait |
| Occupation(s) | Mountaineer and coffee merchant |
| Website | www |
Zed "Zeddy" Al Refai (born October 28, 1966) is a Kuwaiti climber. He was the first Arab to climb Mount Everest and the 46th person to climb all seven highest summits in the seven continents of the world.[1]
Biography
[edit]Al Refai spent part of his childhood in the USA and attended university at institutions in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He spent holidays trekking in New England, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. In the mid-1990s, he traveled to Nepal and was captivated by the Himalayas and Mount Everest.[2] Mountains he has summitted include Mount McKinley in Alaska - North America's highest mountain -, Elbrus, the Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Everest, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica (where he reached the summit on January 13, 2004), and, to complete the Seven Summits challenge, Aconcagua in Argentina (where he reached on February 5, 2004).[3]
Al Refai is director of the Arabian Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing Club,[4] an organization founded in an attempt to popularise mountain climbing among people in the Middle East.
The Seven Summits
[edit]- 1999: Denali
- 2000: Carstensz Pyramid
- 2000: Elbrus
- 2001: Kilimanjaro
- 2001: Mont Blanc
- 2003: Everest
- 2004: Vinson Massif
- 2004: Aconcagua
- 2005: Mount Kosciuszko
References
[edit]- ^ "Zed Al Refai Reaches Tibet On his way to challenge Cho Oyo". Al Bawaba. 9 September 2005. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011.
- ^ "Zed "Zeddy" Al-Refai is the first Arab to summit Mt Everest and the first to complete the Seven Summits as well". 2004.
- ^ "Everest summiter Zed Al-Refai summits Mt Matterhorn". Everest News. 2004. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Wataniya Sponsors Kilimanjaro Climb". Cellular News. 2 May 2007.