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Maxime Chaya
Lebanese mountaineer
Maxime Chaya (Arabic: مكسيم شعيا; born 16 December 1961) is a Lebanese mountaineer and explorer.
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On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.[1][2][3] On December 28, 2007, Max also became the first from the Middle East to reach the South Pole on foot from the Antarctic coast,[2] after an unsupported and unassisted journey that lasted 47 days.
Then, on April 25, 2009, he reached the North Pole also on foot, all the way from Canada.[4][5]
Biography
Maxime Edgard Chaya was born and raised in Beirut until the year 1975 when the civil war saw him and his family take refuge abroad.
He pursued his education overseas in Greece, France, Canada and the United Kingdom, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Honors degree from the London School of Economics (LSE).[citation needed]
Chaya then spent a year as a trainee at Republic Nationa