Manal Rostom منال رستم

My latest project for aldar featuring our Antarctica climb from last January 2026.

As this chapter with Aldar slowly comes to an end, i wanted to share a few thoughts…

Climbing with Dana strengthened something bigger than a partnership — it built a real sisterhood. The mountains have a beautiful way of bringing people together, stripping everything down to trust, vulnerability, resilience, and support.

Thank you, Aldar, for supporting this journey and for believing in women who dare to take up space — on mountains and beyond.

Onwards, upwards, and onto the next mountain 🔜

Many thanks :

🎥 & the entire Chile 🇨🇱 Team

Welcome to all the new followers and thank you so much for the support🙏🏽💞🥰❤️‍🔥

: My Last Phone Call to my Parents before my Everest Summit Attempt on May 15th | 2022

: my most viral video to date 🤯

Speaking to my parents via satellite phone a few hours before my Everest Summit push on May 15th, 2022.

It was one of the hardest calls I ever made in my life because :
A. I had to NOT cry so my parents who were already terrified wouldn’t lose their minds altogether. Before Everest you are requested to sign a repatriation form so there’s always a risk of death - pretty similar to anything really in life - like driving your car to work everyday. So there was this little wonder if perhaps this might be the final call?🙈

B. The truth of the matter was that I was actually terrified but I was on a journey to just do it anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

A raw video that I constantly go back to to remind myself that despite the fear, faith will always be stronger. Faith in God, faith in the journey and faith that maybe , just maybe everything will turn out way better than you’ve ever imagined.








‎أكتر فيديو انتشرلي علي مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي لحد دلوقتي:
وأنا بكلم أهلي بالتليفون الساتلايت قبل محاولة الوصول لقمة إيفرست بساعات، يوم 15 مايو 2022.
‎كانت من أصعب المكالمات اللي عملتها في حياتي، لأن:
‎أ. دايما في احتمال الموت علي الجبل (دي حاجة بنمضي عليها زي اي حاجة - علي فكرة و انت نازل تركب عربيتك الصبح بيبقي في نسبة خطورة بردو 🤷🏻‍♀️) ف الواحد مش بيبقي عارف هل دي ممكن تكون آخر مكالمة ولا لا🤷🏻‍♀️و كان لازم ما أعيطش علشان أهلي اللي كانوا أصلاً مرعوبين ما ينهاروش تمامًا
‎ب. الحقيقة إني كنت مرعوبة فعلًا… بس كان هدفي المحاولة حتي لو فشلت 🤷🏻‍♀️
‎فيديو وبرجعله دايمًا علشان أفكر نفسي إن رغم الخوف، الإيمان دا

This is 46 💅

I locked in and trusted the process the past few months.

But does the process know we’re trusting it?

First of all congratulations on embarking on the most important journey of your life yet. I don’t understand how people can have the money and delay such an important journey, but I was guilty too. I did Haj last year at the age of 45 and honestly I wish I had the money or knowledge or education to do it at 25 or 30 for so many reasons.

1. Hajj requires a very HIGH fitness level. Thankfully because I’m always training I didn’t really feel anything but I felt bad for people who had no fitness and had to walk for many hours carrying a backpack that was around 5 - 7 kg so make sure that you’re ready and prepared to walk for up to 4 hours with a heavy backpack
2. Make sure that you have your toiletries like fragrance - free soap, deodorant, sunscreen, body cream, shower gel, and toothpaste.
3. Not everybody who goes to Hajj is actually ready for Hajj so be prepared to exercise your best tolerance level & utmost patience. People will be people and it will be REALLY HARD to deal with MANY.
4. Make sure you have noise cancellation, headphones I used my AirPods Max. They were amazing during the nights in Mina where I had to sleep with over 50 women in one big tent who didn’t necessarily have much respect for the fact that we were sharing a tent or during hajj season.
5. Arafa will be a very long and very hot day. You need to exercise your utmost patience - don’t yell, don’t lose your patience. Don’t lose your temper. It will be very challenging, and God will be testing you but make sure that you have to control your temper.
6. Make sure you have a change of 5 to 6 abayas & make sure to carry panty liners and so you don’t need to change your underwear and carry lots of fragrance free wipes.
7. Make sure you carry a small chargeable fan that will come in very handy even if the AC is on because there are so many people it gets so hot and stuffy
8. Pack running shoes ONLY- you walk for looong hours.
9. Don’t forget your sunglasses and a small umbrella
10. Make the longest possible list of wishes and dreams because God is most merciful, most forgiving and don’t forget the verse : ﴿وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَس�

Still processing last night 💫

My first ever in-store talk with the The North Face team… and standing there speaking about my endeavor to complete the Seven Summits , felt surreal.

I haven’t completed all 7 summits yet.

I’m still very much in the middle of the climb, the doubt, the training, the setbacks, the becoming.
But maybe that’s exactly why nights like this matter. Because you don’t have to “arrive” to inspire people. Sometimes just showing up authentically is enough.

Seeing so many women there, honestly meant everything to me.
I hope something landed. Even if it was small. A thought. A feeling. A little voice saying: if she can do it , maybe I can too.

Mountains were never just about mountains for me.
They were always about purpose , a solid cause and a loving community .

Everybody loves the story of the athlete who suffers before achieving their goal , but in reality nobody is willing to suffer.

My decision to post this dramatic video of me crying to my followers, FOUR years ago today, was what changed the course of the success of summitting Mt Everest.

🎥 From my talk at last Feb 2026 , recalling this viral video from May 6th , 2022 , while I was suffering on Everest on my second rotation , exactly 10 days before I managed to somehow stand on top of the world.

I kept a video diary while on Everest and never thought would share this one video.

But I chose to because I felt I owed it to community to really understand what’s going on on Everest.

It wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies and glory - it was blood , sweat and lots of tears.

And where people mock and say but it’s “optional” , true , and that’s why I am me and not them.

Note : all the videos are being shared for my Everest 4- year Summitversary.

Training lately 👋🏼

Nobody taught us nothing about navigating life alone in your 30s and 40s.

But Sports Help.

I’m guessing when I’m doing the things that might not make any sense to anyone ,
It helps me heal.

What are you running away from and how has sport helped?



T - 15 Days