Kite carrying Palestinian children’s messages reaches Mount Everest summit
Key takeaways
- Mountaineers carry a kite bearing messages and signatures from children in Gaza to the top of the world.
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- Salameh, who has previously summited Everest, stayed at the first base camp due to frostbite and a blood clot in his left hand.
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Mountaineers carry a kite bearing messages and signatures from children in Gaza to the top of the world.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. The kite was signed by children in Gaza and carried to the summit by a group of mountaineers [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]By Anushe Engineer Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026The hopes and dreams of Palestinian children from Gaza have reached the top of the world as a kite bearing their handwritten messages was carried to the summit of Mount Everest by a team of mountaineers.
The group summited the world’s highest peak at 10:48am local time (05:03 GMT) on Thursday, Jordanian Palestinian mountaineer Mostafa Salameh, who was spearheading the expedition but did not summit, confirmed in a social media post.