Nadhira Al Harthy was an Omani civil servant and mountaineer, born on 21 November 1977 in Al Mudhayrib in Al Sharqiyah. She held a master's degree in geography, taught the subject for four years and then worked for Oman's Ministry of Education. In 2019 she became the first Omani woman, and the second person from Oman, to climb Mount Everest, and she went on to summit Manaslu and Ama Dablam in 2021, K2 in 2022 and Nanga Parbat in 2024. She was working towards all fourteen eight-thousanders when she died on 30 July 2026 in an avalanche on Broad Peak, where the Alpine Club of Pakistan confirmed that she and nine other climbers had been killed.
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She was the second person from Oman, and the first Omani woman, to climb Mount Everest.
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