Moving Mountains
A Life Happens Outdoors Documentary in Partnership with ABLE
Moving Mountains follows Fred Sfeir and Raneen Faraidy as they choose to undertake Kilimanjaro with the structure, guidance, logistics, and team support of Life Happens Outdoors.
This is a documentary film about preparation, trust, adaptation, supported challenge, and what it means to answer the call to adventure.
Request the 25-Minute Short
The 25-minute short version is available by request for selected distributors, festivals, press, sponsors, institutions, and strategic partners.
A Documentary About Kilimanjaro, Trust and Supported Challenge
Moving Mountains is a documentary project by Life Happens Outdoors following two Arab adventurers on Kilimanjaro.
Fred Sfeir, Lebanese, has retinitis pigmentosa. Raneen Faraidy, Saudi, has cerebral palsy. Together, their journey on the mountain became a story about far more than altitude.
The film explores what happens before, during, and after a serious outdoor challenge: the preparation, the uncertainty, the patience, the humour, the fear, the trust, the adaptation, and the quiet decisions that make an adventure possible.
At its heart, Moving Mountains is not a story about overcoming disability. It is a story about agency, capability, dignity, support, and the human decision to step into something difficult with care, structure, and intention.
Meet Raneem and Fred
Raneen Faraidy
Raneen Faraidy is Saudi and has cerebral palsy.
Her journey on Kilimanjaro is one of preparation, adaptation, and personal agency. Moving Mountains follows her experience of the mountain with honesty and care, without reducing the story to easy inspiration or simple triumph.
Raneen’s role in the film is not symbolic. She is one of the protagonists of the story: present, active, reflective, and fully part of the challenge she chose to undertake.
Fred Sfeir
Fred Sfeir is Lebanese and has retinitis pigmentosa.
In Moving Mountains, Fred’s story is told through his own relationship with the mountain, the team around him, and the choices he makes throughout the Kilimanjaro ascent.
His presence in the film is not defined by diagnosis alone. It is shaped by preparation, humour, trust, determination, frustration, patience, and the experience of moving through a demanding environment in his own way.
Why Kilimanjaro?
Kilimanjaro is one of the world’s most recognised mountains, but the mountain is never just the mountain.
Altitude changes the pace of everything. The body slows down. The mind becomes louder. Small decisions matter. The support system matters. Preparation matters. Trust matters.
For Life Happens Outdoors, Kilimanjaro has always been more than a summit objective. It is a place where people meet uncertainty, learn to move with patience, and discover what kind of support they need when the path becomes difficult.
In Moving Mountains, Kilimanjaro becomes the setting for a deeper question: what happens when adventure is approached not as a reckless leap, but as a supported challenge built around preparation, adaptation, and care?
Life Happens Outdoors’ Role
Life Happens Outdoors designed and supported the Kilimanjaro experience at the centre of Moving Mountains. Our role included the expedition structure, mountain logistics, team support, planning, filming, and production of the documentary. We worked to create the conditions around the ascent: the people, the process, the support, the storytelling, and the care required to bring a project like this to life responsibly. The story belongs first to Fred and Raneen: their choices, their preparation, their difficulty, their humour, their capability, and their experience of the mountain in their own way. Able also provided specialist support around accessibility, adaptation, and the practical realities of undertaking Kilimanjaro with Fred and Raneen. Their contribution strengthened the wider support system behind the project and helped ensure the challenge was approached with care, awareness, and respect. Moving Mountains reflects a belief at the centre of Life Happens Outdoors: outdoor experiences can transform people, but transformation is not something a company gives to someone. It is something people step into for themselves, with the right support around them. By filming and producing Moving Mountains, Life Happens Outdoors is extending that belief beyond the expedition itself. The documentary is part of our wider commitment to telling serious, human outdoor stories with dignity, depth, and responsibility.
Able’s Specialist Support
Moving Mountains was also supported by Able, whose role was to provide specialist support around accessibility, adaptation, and the practical realities of undertaking Kilimanjaro with Fred and Raneen. Their involvement helped strengthen the support structure around the project. For a challenge like Kilimanjaro, specialist input matters. The mountain requires preparation, judgement, flexibility, and a clear understanding of how each person may need to move, rest, communicate, adapt, and be supported in a demanding outdoor environment. Able’s contribution formed part of the wider care and planning behind the documentary. Alongside Life Happens Outdoors’ mountain logistics, team leadership, and expedition structure, Able helped ensure that the project was approached with greater awareness, responsibility, and respect for the individual needs of the protagonists. This collaboration reflects one of the central ideas behind Moving Mountains: meaningful adventure is not created by removing difficulty. It is created by preparing properly, building the right support system, and respecting each person’s agency on the mountain.
A Life Happens Outdoors Story
Life Happens Outdoors was built around the idea that adventure can help people come back different. That does not mean adventure is easy. It does not mean risk disappears. It does not mean every outcome can be controlled. It means that the outdoors can ask honest questions of people. It can reveal courage, but also doubt. It can build confidence, but only through preparation. It can create connection, but only when trust is real. Moving Mountains sits within that wider Life Happens Outdoors belief. It is a community story, a documentary project, and a deeper expression of why we do what we do.
Festival, Distribution and Partnership Consideration
The full Moving Mountains documentary is being prepared for festival, screening, distribution, sponsorship, and institutional partnership consideration. A 25-minute short version is available for selected distributors, festivals, press, sponsors, institutions, cultural organisations, universities, and strategic partners reviewing the wider project. We are currently speaking with partners who share an interest in adventure, documentary storytelling, disability and adventure, Arab adventurers, inclusive outdoor experiences, transformational leadership, and human stories told with dignity.
Screenings, Sponsors and Institutional Partners
Moving Mountains is available for selected conversations around: Private documentary screenings Festival and cultural programming Distribution and broadcast consideration Brand sponsorship Institutional partnerships Corporate screenings University screenings Leadership and inclusion events Press and media features Adventure, disability, and outdoor storytelling initiatives We are particularly interested in partners who understand that this film is not a conventional travel story. It is a documentary about supported challenge, preparation, identity, trust, and the human experience of adventure. For partnership, screening, distribution, sponsorship, or press enquiries, please contact Life Happens Outdoors.
For Distributors and Festivals
Moving Mountains is being prepared as a serious documentary film for festival and distribution consideration. The project brings together Kilimanjaro, Arab adventure storytelling, disability and adventure, and the wider question of how outdoor experiences can change people when they are approached with preparation, responsibility, and support. The private trailer and 25-minute short version are available for review by selected distributors, festivals, programmers, broadcasters, documentary platforms, and cultural partners.
For Sponsors and Brand Partners
Moving Mountains offers selected sponsors and brand partners the opportunity to align with a documentary project rooted in adventure, human capability, inclusive outdoor experience, and meaningful regional storytelling. This is not a logo-placement exercise. The right partners will understand the care required around the story, the protagonists, the mountain, and the wider message. We are open to conversations with brands and institutions connected to outdoor equipment, travel, aviation, health, vision, inclusion, leadership, education, culture, and transformational experiences.
For Press and Media
Press enquiries are welcome from journalists, editors, producers, podcast hosts, and documentary media covering adventure, Kilimanjaro, disability and adventure, Arab adventurers, outdoor culture, human interest stories, and transformational travel. Approved press materials, stills, synopsis, protagonist bios, and background information are available by request. All public language around Fred, Raneen, their conditions, and their Kilimanjaro experience is handled with care and approval.
Discuss Moving Mountains
For festival, distribution, screening, sponsorship, press, institutional, or partnership enquiries, please contact the Life Happens Outdoors team.
If you would like to review the 25-minute short version, explore a private screening, discuss brand partnership, or learn more about the full documentary launch, share your details below and we will get back to you directly.
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