We’re Empowering Humanity To Answer The Call To Adventure

We believe that every single one of us is born an explorer and every single one of us can find a transformative experience in the outdoors. That’s why, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, and no matter what you believe your limitations to be, we’ve made it our mission to help you find yours.

Meet Your LHO Team

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RAMI RASAMNY
Founder & Chief of LHO

Rami is the founder of LHO and believes everyone can be transformed and empowered by outdoor experiences. After his own transformation from a chain-smoking, binge-drinking, overweight law student to a respected mountaineer, athlete, and entrepreneur behind the fast-growing LHO community, he made it his mission to show what’s possible when people say yes to adventure. As LHO’s first Team Leader, Rami pioneered a unique approach to adventure, making it accessible to all, creating a supportive environment, and ensuring every participant feels what it’s like to achieve the impossible and come back different.
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GHIDA ARNAOUT
Co-founder of LHO

It wasn’t until a clubbing accident landed Ghida in a wheelchair for 6 months that she decided to ditch the trappings of Urban life and head to the great outdoors. With the all clear from her doctors, she took a trip to Nepal and fell in love with everything about the Himalayas. Since then, she’s become an inspiring amateur rock climber, a nature enthusiast and an LHO Team Leader. Ghida believes strongly in the healing power of outdoors experiences and uses her role as a Team Leader to encourage everyone to give it a try.
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ELIE ABI AKAR
Chief of Base Camp

Elie is our Base Camp Chief and he’ll be with you every step of the way to make sure you’re all set to go on an adventure of a lifetime. During his Advertising career, Elie was questioned many times by his colleagues as to why he was listening to the sound of ocean waves while working and staring at a faraway beach. But when they listened, it all made sense. There’s nothing more important than quality time in the outdoors away from life’s daily routine, so why not let him take you there?

ROLAND PRINCE
Chief of Growth & Strategy

Roland saw the potential in LHO when it was still nothing more than a hashtag on Instagram. With his wealth of experience in SMEs and startups, he has been a guide and mentor to the founders in the early days of the LHO community and is now a partner responsible for the growth and development strategy that is taking this incredible Life Happens Outdoors story into the next chapter.

Base Camp Team

team leader Gino Trabousi

Gino Trabousi
Deputy Chief of Base Camp

Gino is the second half running our Base Camp operations. His outdoor passions span from rock climbing to surfing and everything in between. Constantly pursuing spending time outside falls in line with his belief that nature heals, and that cities fatigue. Whether it’s the mountains, forests, deserts or oceans, you’ll notice that they all slap an equally huge grin on his face. Dark chocolate will have the same effect as well.
team leader Hazem El Shamy

Hazem El Shamy
Chief of Partnerships

Hazem is deeply passionate about high altitude mountaineering, but enjoys all kinds of mountain adventures. Since 2013, he’s climbed in the Himalayas, Caucuses, the Atlas and Red Sea mountain ranges. He believes that the most rewarding aspect of climbing is the deep relationships that form on the way to the summit, nothing like an exposed ridge to really bring everyone together!
team leader Bader Al Sayyed Ahmed

Bader Al Sayyed Ahmed
Chief of Field Operations

Bader is a passionate outdoorsman who cares deeply about the journeys of all our LHO Community members. As Field Operations Chief, he’s the person who ensures that all our adventure experiences are done the LHO way. That means attention to the smallest details, ensuring that all our adventures are safe and flawlessly delivered, and that our LHO Team Leaders deliver on the promise, at every opportunity, of empowering you to answer the call to adventure. He’s also a certified barista so it’s free coffee whenever he’s your Team Leader!

LHO Team Leaders

team leader Menna Abdelrahman

Menna Abdelrahman
Team Leader

Menna is an avid rock climber, hiker, free-diver and overall outdoor enthusiast. She led a successful career in the venture capital and startup ecosystem in Egypt and has gradually invested more time towards her passion for outdoor adventures. Menna’s energy and love for nature is contagious!
team leader Rand Al Sumait

Rand Al Sumait
Team Leader

A real estate analyst turned LHO Team Leader and adventure travel advocate, Rand found her passion and her place in the world after joining the LHO Community for a climb to the Mont Blanc in 2019. That experience led her to shift careers entirely and dedicate her life to inspiring fellow humans to take that courageous step and choose a journey of self-discovery. It also helps that her last name is one letter short of the word “Summit”.
team leader lho-ambassador Marwan Oueida

Marwan Oueida
Team Leader & LHO Ambassador

Marwan started as a joiner on our trip to Kilimanjaro. It was his first major adventure experience and one that led him down a path he never imagined at the time. Today, he’s an LHO Team Leader with experience in Nepal, the Alps and beyond! If terrible dad jokes and an insane attention to detail are qualities you’re looking for in your Team Leader, you’ve found the right guy!
team leader lho-ambassador Anthony Mezher

Anthony Mezher
Team Leader & LHO Ambassador

Anthony is a Civil Engineer, he started as a client with LHOs adventures and now he leads them, he is also the gear guru in UAE and got the Adventurer LHO rewards. Stuck in the gulf with no access to mountains pushes him to do his trainings in the desert, so you don’t want to mess with someone who runs on sand dunes in 40 degrees!!
team leader lho-ambassador Haneen Suleiman

Haneen Suleiman
Team Leader & LHO Ambassador

Haneen began her adventure journey when she signed up to climb Kilimanjaro with LHO. Over the years she’s built up her experience at an impressive pace, jumping from summit to summit, developing skills and transforming herself from a novice explorer to an LHO Ambassador and Team Leader. Haneen is also a Managing Director in the digital marketing field. Merging the natural leadership skills from her professional life with her passion and enthusiasm for outdoor pursuits is what makes trips with her so unique.
team leader Jean Louis Moukarzel

Jean Louis Moukarzel
Team Leader

Jean-Louis is a life-long backpacker who’s gotten into technical mountaineering since 2022 and has been using almost all of his time off since then being outdoors, at altitude, and seeking new challenges. Although you’ll find him out in the mountains of the UAE on weekends, Jean-Louis still enjoys some down time through music, writing and video games. Yes, video games. He also has a day time job by the way but you wouldn’t guess that being around him.
team leader Jad Abi Akar

Jad Abi Akar
Team Leader

Jad’s first trek was the Inca Trail with LHO in 2019. This experience deepened his connection to nature and the outdoors, and encouraged him to escape the hustle and bustle of the city more often than before. In addition to exercising regularly, he also enjoys playing percussion, listening to music, yoga and meditation. Don’t miss out on joining his stretching routine on the trail!
team leader Nada Abandah

Nada Abandah
Team Leader

Nada Nada Nada! A die hard LHOer and former corporate rebel who traded the office for the great outdoors. As a mother and inspiring figure, not only did she managed to carve her own path but also became a beacon of inspiration for her daughter and numerous other women. Nada, a triathlete with a contagious sense of humor, blends dedication and laughter, making her the ideal Team Leader. Nada is always ready for a crazy adventure but the question is, are you?
team leader lho-ambassador Rawan Al Dabt

Rawan Al Dabt
Team Leader & LHO Ambassador

Rawan went on her first solo and trekking trip with LHO to Nepal in 2022. This trip was a turning point for her. Shortly afterwards she took a leap of faith and left her 7 years of corporate marketing behind to explore the world around her and within her. On an adventure with Rawan, expect her to share the tools she learnt while exploring, and to inspire you to also explore your untapped potential.
team leader lho-ambassador Nasser Al Mohannadi

Nasser Al Mohannadi
Team Leader & LHO Ambassador

Nasser, the Qatari hidden soldier of LHO, embarked on his adventurous journey nearly a decade ago when he first summited Kilimanjaro. Over the past two years, he has dedicated most of his vacation days from his corporate job to outdoor pursuits. His impressive track record on the mountains, combined with his practice of Jiu-Jitsu and passion for fishing, makes Nasser a calm and wise companion on any adventure. Nasser is one of our ambassadors and now a team leader, and believe us when we say he never fails to impress.
team leader Hannah Piercy

Hannah Piercy
Team Leader

From a young age, Hannah’s love for the outdoors led her to a successful career in the British military, where she built the resilience and skills that now power her career in risk management consultancy. Whether she’s skydiving, horseback riding, hitting the gym, or climbing mountains, Hannah lives by the motto, “Too many hobbies, not enough time.” Her adventurous spirit and passion for tackling mental and physical challenges make her a truly inspiring leader.
team leader Ranwa Zahr

Ranwa Zahr
Team Leader

Ranwa, or as her friends call her Run-wa, has picked up so many activities but feels the most at home in the mountains. She spent her teenage years horseback riding, had a side-career in dance in uni and early adulthood, and now enjoys weekends rock climbing, hiking, or mountaineering. She balances a marketing consultancy gig with a side job as an acrobatics instructor, and as a certified scuba divemaster. Her happy place is anywhere that cell reception can’t reach.
team leader Leen Madanat

Leen Madanat
Team Leader

Ever wondered what happens when you mix a consultant and an MBA candidate with a yoga mat and a dash of wanderlust? You get Leen! Our resident yoga guru and adventure alchemist, Leen has a knack for turning boardrooms into mountain tops and spreadsheets into sun salutations. In 2023, while her colleagues were crunching numbers, Leen was crunching trail mix on her way up Kilimanjaro, leading a corporate trip that sparked her passion for creating community through movement and the great outdoors. Now, she’s traded her business casual for yoga pants (though sometimes she wears both – hey, it’s called balance!).

The LHO Story

It’s a story that we all have. It starts with a crash, one that debilitates, with the power to knock us down and keep us there. It’s a story of what we did in that moment, the choices we made, and the courage we had to say, “This isn’t good enough.” That is exactly where our story begins.

For LHO founder Rami Rasamny, that moment came when he found himself on the brink of an early-age health crisis, brought on by two packs of cigarettes a day, crates of beer every weekend, and a lifestyle of abject victimhood. Mountains changed that. Through his choice to take a chance and get out into the hills, he discovered a passion, a purpose, and a determination that had been drowned out by the distractions of the modern rat race. His transformation was far from linear, but it empowered and enabled him to make the difficult choices that paved the way to what has since become a life of fulfillment on the roofs of the world.

For LHO co-founder Ghida, that brink came when she found herself in a wheelchair after a crazy New Year’s Eve bash. Three surgical screws, a long recovery, and suddenly being dependent on others for even basic tasks like showering became her daily reality. It was from that very chair that she decided something in her life had to change. That’s why, at the first opportunity to walk, she went into the outdoors, discovered rock climbing, and found a strength of will through her new experiences, guiding her back from a very dark place.

Every single member of our LHO team can tell a similar story. That’s why LHO is so personal to all of us and why Life Happens Outdoors is much more than just an adventure travel community—it’s an ideal we believe in. We all have our dark moments, and we’ve all experienced the healing and empowering energy of time spent in the great outdoors. That’s why we believe that every one of us is born an explorer. That each of us, no matter who we are, where we come from, or what our perceived limitations may be, can find a transformative experience in the great outdoors.

Every adventure we’ve curated, every summit we’ve supported, and every life-changing accomplishment we’ve shared with our LHO Community has only reinforced our resolve to continue our mission. And our mission is clear: We empower humanity to answer the call to adventure. #comebackdifferent

WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM?

Explore available positions or just reach out to us through the contact us form. We’re always looking for passionate adventure enthusiasts who’d like to jump onboard one of the fastest growing adventure travel communities out there.

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