Maxime Chaya

Maxime Chaya (Arabic: مكسيم شعيا; born 16 December 1961) is a Lebanese mountaineer and cross-disciplinary athlete, known best for being the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.

Chaya also became the first from the Middle East to reach the South Pole on foot from the Antarctic coast, and the North Pole on foot in 2009.