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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 .
Origin
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 Zeidan is a mountaineer, and the first Palestinian to reach the Seven Summits including Vinson Massif in Antarctica, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua in Argentina. Zeidan was part of a four-member group called the Arabs of the Heights, which included the first Saudi woman, Raha Moharrak , the first Qatari man, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani and the Iranian, Masoud Mohammed, who reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 2013.
Medals
On December 23, 2013, President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas awarded climber Raed Zidane the Gold Medal of Merit and Excellence.
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