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Raed Zidan ( in English : Raed Zidan ) (October 20, 1971 in Kuwait -) is a Kuwaiti- Palestinian . He was the first Palestinian to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first Palestinian to reach the seven summits of the mountains .
Early life
Zidane was born in Kuwait to a Palestinian family from the town of Kafr Laqif in the Qalqilya Governorate, northwest of the West Bank, in the State of Palestine.
Climbing Mount Everest
Raed Zidan is a mountaineer, and the first Palestinian to reach seven mountain peaks , including Vinson Massif in Antarctica and Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in Argentina . Zidane was part of a four-member group called Arabs of Altitude, which included the first Saudi woman, Raha Muharraq , the first Qatari man, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani and the Iranian, Masoud Mohammed, which reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 2013.
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Достижения и награды
Medals
On December 23, 2013, the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, awarded climber Raed Zidane the Gold Medal of Merit and Excellence.
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