Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Kathmandu: Qatari Princes Asma Al Thani is preparing to take the official football of the upcoming FIFA World Cup to the summit of the world's highest peak in the world, Mount Everest.
After successfully ascending Mount Vinson (4,892m), the highest mountain in South Pole, Antarctica, princess Thani is now in Nepal and preparing to climb Mount Everest.
Thani is preparing to enhance the prestige of the 2022 FIFA World cup by taking it's official football to the highest level in the world.
Ashok Rai, manager of Elite Exped says Qatari princess Thani had carried it to Nepal and will climb Mt. Everest. Sheikha Asma had brought official football of FIFA World cup 2022 from Qatar and now she reached Everest Base Camp.
Rai also added, she brought the official football with goal of taking it to the summit of Everest. Princess Thani is also in the management department for 2022 FIFA World Cup. According to Rai it was good news for Nepal to reach the official football to the Mt.Everest. He added it would also help in promoting Nepal's tourism and expanding Nepal-Qatar relations to the higher level.
Princess Thani would be the first Qatari woman to scale Mt. Everest after her successful summit. She became the first Arab women to climb Mt.Vinson.
Thani has previously scaled Mt. Ama Dalam (6,812m), Dhaulagiri (8,167m) and without oxygen climbed Manaslu (8,163m) successfully. Nirmal Purja, the veteran Nepalese mountaineer guided her to climb all these mountains. Purja has set up world record by climbing all 14 of the world's highest peak in seven months, and also made history by summiting K2 in winter.
Sheikha Asma is on her way to become the first Qatari woman to complete the Explorers 'Grand Slam'. So, Thani aims to climb all the seven Summits (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Puncak Jaya and Mount Elbrus) and to accomplish both North and South Poles.
Sheikha Asma has become the first Qatari to ski the last degree to the North Pole in 2018 and scaled Aconcagua in 2019.
