Asma Al Thani

Sheikha Asma Al Thani is a Qatari mountaineer, a member of the ruling family of Qatar and Director of Marketing and Communications for the Qatar Olympic Committee. She is the first Qatari woman to summit Mount Everest, Lhotse, Manaslu and K2, and the first Qatari woman to climb Ama Dablam. In 2018 she became the first Qatari to ski to the North Pole, as part of an all-female Euro-Arabian polar expedition led by Felicity Aston, and she was named Woman of the Year by the Qatari edition of Grazia. On Manaslu in 2021 she became the first Arab to summit an eight-thousander without supplemental oxygen, and she climbed Lhotse a second time without oxygen in May 2024.