Tanzania’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has named Rawan Dakik a Tourism Ambassador.
Ms Dakik, 20, is the first Tanzanian woman and youngest African to summit Mount Everest. She reached the mountain’s peak on May 22.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world at 8,848.86m above sea level.
Ms Dakik was named ambassador when she arrived at the Kilimanjaro International Airport from Nepal. She was received by Deputy Minister for Tourism Mary Masanja. She received a grand reception by her parents and a section of Tanzanian tourism officials.
On that day apart from Dakik, the other 22 climbers who made it alongside Dakik were from USA, Sweden, Nepal, South Africa, Canada and Japan.
On March 20, 2021 she announced that she would be climbing Mountain Everest to support children living with Cancer.
Saray Khumalo was the first African woman to conquer Mount Everest on May 16, 2019, after several climbing expeditions on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and other mountains in the world to raise funds for childrens’ education and libraries in Africa.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay were the first people to reach the mountain’s summit on May 29, 1953.
