“Have you ever thought about how vast this expanding universe is? Or looked at your life and pondered how much control you actually had? Well, I have, and I felt completely helpless at first,” says Omar Samra, Egyptian mountaineer and adventurer. “But then I realized that through embracing this uncertainty and lack of control lies the source of infinite power, the ability to overcome any adversity and the key to answer one of life’s most important questions – why are we here?” Famous for being the first Egyptian and youngest Arab to summit Mount Everest and later on for achieving the Adventurer’s Grand Slam, many people saw Samra for the inspirational personality that he is, a man who preaches breaking boundaries and stretching horizons. However, little did many people know about the heartache the adventurer had to endure when his wife and soulmate passed away shortly after giving birth to their daughter Teela three years ago. “It has been a long and difficult journey for me of trying to keep my head above water and making sense of the world around me,” Samra told Egyptian Streets. “A year ago I…
