Nadhirah is first Omani woman to scale Mount Everest

Muscat: Nadhirah al Harthy has become the first Omani woman to climb Mount Everest, according to sources. In her last tweet on May 16, she said, 'We leave the main camp. 5300 m for the second camp directly 6400 m as the final stage of climbing to the summit and from it to the third and fourth camp will be in about seven days. If the weather conditions as expected May 22 will be the night of arrival at the summit of Everest.' [gallery size='full' ids='548747,548746,548744']   With a master’s degree in geography, Nadhirah wanted to step outside the box Arab women are put into. Filmmaker and adventurer Elia Saikaly, who has been following Nadhirah, in a social media post said, 'I trailed Nadhirah on the way down to basecamp through the Icefall and not only was she rappelling like a boss she was also filming with her iPhone while crossing horizontal ladders.' Her success follows Jokha al Harthy, the 40-year-old assistant professor at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), who became the first writer in the Arabic language to win the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies.