Palestinian mountaineer is raising $10m for Gaza by climbing Mount Everest

Palestinian mountaineer is raising $10m for Gaza by climbing Mount Everest Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Fri, 05/08/2026 - 18:43 Mostafa Salameh has made it to the top three times before, but this journey has a particular, more personal resonance British-Jordanian-Palestinian climber and motivational speaker Mostafa Salameh holds up a Palestinian flag in an undated photo taken in Iceland last year (Supplied) Off It's late on a Friday evening, at Mount Everest's base camp, 17,500 feet above sea level, when Mostafa Salameh speaks to Middle East Eye over the phone. "It's a clear sky tonight, after it's been snowing in the past week," he says, sounding upbeat from his tent. This is his sixth attempt to summit the world's highest peak, in the Himalayas, measuring some 29,000 feet.