Sheikha Asmaa scales Ama Dablam peak in the Himalayas

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar’s Sheikha Asma Al Thani has conquered yet another “tough mountain” as she scaled the 6,812-metre Ama Dablam peak in the Nep...

Tribune News NetworkDohaQatar’s Sheikha Asma Al Thani has conquered yet another “tough mountain” as she scaled the 6,812-metre Ama Dablam peak in the Nepal Himalaya. This is her fourth summit this year.The Director of Marketing and Communications at the Qatar Olympic Committee reached the Ama Dablam peak on Monday (November 8) at 10 am, becoming the first Qatari woman to do so.“We made it! We summitted the beautiful Ama Dablam ‘Mother’s Necklace’ at 10 am (on Monday),” Sheikha Asma wrote on her Instagram page.“It was a tough mountain to climb, highly technical in extreme altitude, but nevertheless we ascended higher. This mountain is all about teamwork, helping each other, motivating each other and standing by each other when things get tough!”Qatar Olympic Committee also tweeted out its congratulations.“Congratulations! Qatari mountaineer Sheikha Asmaa Bint Thani Al Thani reaches Ama Dablam summit with a height of 6,812m. It’s our champion’s fourth summit this year, making her the first Qatari female to summit Mount (Ama Dablam).”Deemed “beautiful but unclimbable” by legendary climber Sir Edmund Hillary, Ama Dablam (Mother’s Necklace) is the fourth summit scaled by Sheikha Asmaa this year. Ama Dablam means ‘Mother’s Necklace’ in Sherpa because its summit makes the mountain look like a mother hugging her young, and the ‘dablam’ is the massive hanging jewel near the summit which looks like a holy locket.Sheikha Asma recently scaled Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) in Nepal, the seventh-highest mountain in the world, weeks after conquering Mt Manaslu (8,163), the eighth-highest peak, without supplemental oxygen.Sheikha Asma began her journey as a mountaineer in 2014 by summiting Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak.She has since climbed Argentina’s Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, and skied to the North Pole.Sheikha Asma hopes her feats will inspire other female climbers to follow in her footsteps.