Maxime chaya biography

Maxime Chaya (Arabic: مكسيم شعيا; born 16 December ) is a Lebanese mountaineer and explorer.

Lebanon's foremost sportsman and adventurer, Maxime Chaya was the first person from his country to hoist its flag atop Everest ().

Maxime Chaya is a Lebanese mountaineer and explorer.

Biography.

Lebanon's foremost sportsman and climber, Maxime Chaya was the first person from his home country to hoist its flag atop Everest.

Maxime Chaya, the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest as well as several other peaks in the world, shared lessons learned during his.

On May 15, , he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. On December 28, , Max also became the first from the Middle East to reach the South Pole on foot from the Antarctic coast, after an unsupported and unassisted journey that lasted 47 days.

Then, on April 25, , he reached the North Pole also on foot, all the way from Canada.

Biography

Maxime Edgard Chaya was born and raised in Beirut until the year 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).

Chaya then spent a year as a trainee at Republic National Bank of New York's head office on Fifth Avenue before foregoing post-graduate studies and returning home to take over the family's foreig