Lama and Dima Hattab AKA “the unlimited twins” are determined to be the first Jordanian women to climb Mount Everest. I was honored to have met the twins and I can tell you this much, the energetic Jordanian twins are not short on commitment nor a plan to achieve their dream. One could see how passionate they are about their self-assigned mission and that they strongly believe in what they do, be it the preparations for climbing Mount Everest or organizing charity marathons.

I was really surprised to know that such amazing girls with such great potentials and such an honorable goal can’t find the support they need to achieve what I personally see as a national dream. However, I’m glad that, Dima and Lama decided that nothing will stand in their way. Life is all about making choices in the end, don’t you agree?

Talking about their dream, and how it all started, Dima quoted Paulo Coelho in his book “The Alchemist” in a post titled “Dreams coming true” and I quote:

When we start running we never thought we will reach point where we are now, we used watching running programs on TV and dreaming to do such a thing. We never stop dreaming of that. I clearly can remember when we decided to run on the Dead Sea Ultra Marathon 50km and 42km, and we start our training to achieve it…
All our friends said “YOU ARE CRAZY”!!! In the race day we showed every body how crazy we are and we won the race….

From there we started looking for bigger races, and the next year we run the Desert Cup race 168km non-stop we were 19 years old, and the only Arabic ladies… that was so hard for us, but we did it and we reached the finish line together….The 244km Marathon Des Sable was our next step, we were the first from the Middle East running the race holding the Jordanian flag with us and we learned a lot from that race. We run so many other races after that in Germany, Italy and France….

Now we want to show all the people in this world the power of ladies…We decide to start our training To Be The First Twins Ever Climbing Mount Everest And The First Arabic Ladies Reach The Summit And Get The Jordanian Flag To The Heights Point On The Earth.
It won’t be easy… but this is what we want to do and we believe that all the universe conspires in helping us to achieve it.

The unlimited twins, Dima and Lama plans to climb Mount Everest in 2009 and were interviewed by leading news agencies. Amman Net interviewed the twins last month, you can read the full story here.

For more on these interviews in addition to photos and videos about them and their journey “to the top..of Mount Everest”; check out their Facebook group and show some support.

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