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

RAMI RASAMNY
Founder & Chief of LHO

Rami is the founder of LHO and passionate in the belief that everyone can be empowered by experiences in the outdoors. As an LHO Team Leader, Rami has led over 15 trips to Kilimanjaro, 8 trips to the Mont Blanc and has led most LHO expeditions in the Himalayas, South America and beyond. In his free time you’ll probably find him skiing lines in the middle of nowhere or plotting his next big climb to a mountain no one’s heard of. Don’t ask him about it because he won’t shut up if you do.

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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?

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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.

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Base Camp Team

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.

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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!

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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!

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LHO Team Leaders

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. She now leads LHO experiences and leads the program that enables our community members to become team leaders and adventure professionals themselves.

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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”.

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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!

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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?

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The LHO Story

Life Happens Outdoors is an ideal. One that literally guided Rami, founder of LHO, away from 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. Finding mountains, where his transformative experience in the outdoors happened, is what 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 was reached when she found herself in a wheelchair after a crazy NYE bash. The healing power of the outdoors that came to her in the form of rock climbing, and the strength of will it enabled, guided her back from a very dark place. Every single member of our LHO team can tell a very a similar story. That’s why LHO is so personal to all of us and why Life Happens Outdoors is an ideal that 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 it is our mission to enable every single person to find a transformative experience in the outdoors, and in so doing, to come back different.

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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