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Eyes burnt blind from the sun, altitude sickness
filling your lungs with fluid - mountaineering is no walk in the
park, as Zed Al Refai discovered on his ascent of Everest.
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Kuwait's flat sunny deserts might not be the
ideal home for the first Arab to climb up Everest, but despite a
near death experience on his first attempt, Zed Al Refai scaled
the peak on his second try. He describes his successful assault
on the world's highest mountain.
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Dubai
climber sets his sights on new heights.
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In 2001 Mr. Al Refai made his first
assault on Everest. It failed, he contracted cerebral amaemia and
was left in a coma for three days. This year he tried again and became
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"I have experienced joy and sadness, failure
and triumph, leisure & discomfort, health & illness, loneliness
and comradery, but never the less this is the nature of long expeditions,
especially Everest" says Zeddy.
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Zeddy's interview on www.alyaqza.com
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Keeping in mind that you are an Arab
and the usual sports that is preffered by them is football & soccer.
And you should have consequently opted for something similar but instead
yu chose Mountain Climbing - What inspired such a choice and how u
started it ?
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" A tennis player dreams of winning
Wimbledon, a cricket player wants to knock a century in each match,
a soccer plyer aspires to net the World Cup, a swimmer to catch an
Olympic Gold, a boxer to lift the heavyweight Championship. And for
a mountaineer - to scale the Mount Everest ." These were the
opening lines of Kuwait national Zed Al Refai that set the tone for
a journey of dixcovery into the mind of this adventurer.
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Regular Young and Trendy magazine will be familiar
with the continued efforts by Zeddy and Martine Larroque, to complete
the Seven Summits - the highest continental peaks in the world.
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Kuwaiti Zed Al Refai
and French Martine Larroque share a passion - Conquering mountain
peaks. Ahmad Khafafi met the duo to find out more about their exploits
and future plans.
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While most of the people
have vowed to give up smoking or cut down on the chocolate, Zed
Al Fefai has made a New Year's resolution with a difference. The
33-year-old intends to create history by becoming the first Arab
to scale Mount Everest.
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