Education
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Refai spent part of his childhood in Finland and attended university in the United States, at institutions in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
First Rate (at Lloyd's) Refai spent part of his childhood in Finland and attended university in the United States, at institutions in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
He was the first Arab to climb Mount Everest and the 46th person to climb all seven highest summits in the seven continents of the world. He spent holidays trekking in New England, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. In the mid-1990s he traveled to Nepal, where he was captivated by the Himalayas and Mount Everest.
Mountains he has summitted include Mountain.
McKinley in Alaska - North America"s highest mountain -, Elbrus, the Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Everest, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica, where he reached the summit on January 13, 2004, and, to complete the Seven Summits challenge, Aconcagua in Argentina on February 5, 2004. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Refai is director of the Arabian Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing Club, founded in an attempt to popularise mountain climbing among people in the Middle East.
1999: Denali
2000: Carstensz Pyramid
2000: Elbrus
2001: Kilimanjaro
2003: Everest
2004: Vinson Massif
2004: Aconcagua
2005: Mount Kosciuszko
2003: Everest
2005: Cho Oyu.
