Siti Hanisah with a photo of her Mount Everest feat. Photo: Fernleaf
When Siti Hanisah Sharuddin conquered Mount Everest on May 23, 2013, she was 23 years old – and the youngest Malaysian woman to do so. Cheers and accolades greeted Siti Hanisah upon her return. But the voices around her had not always been so positive.
When she harboured dreams of scaling the Seven Summits – the highest mountains of the world’s seven continents – friends told her to get her head out of the clouds.
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