Nelly Attar

Nelly Attar is a mountaineer who holds both Saudi and Lebanese nationality and was born in 1990. In 2022 she became the first Arab woman to summit K2, one of the highest and most demanding mountains in the world. Before turning to climbing as a profession she trained and worked as a psychologist: she holds a research master degree in psychology and spent four years as a therapist before shifting into sport. Her career is placed in the mountaineering partition of the atlas because her recorded achievements are expedition ascents rather than competition results.