LIVE COURAGEOUSLY // Freshta Ibrahimi

Freshta is part of a newly emancipated generation of Afghani women who pursued their right to education despite constant derision and threats of violence, securing a scholorship to The American University in Kabul.

In 2016 she was on campus when a truck bomb detonated, blowing open a hole in the perimeter wall through which the Taliban attacked. They besieged the campus for almost 10 hours, stalking the corridors room to room, tossing grenades into classrooms and gunning those down who ran.

Freshta narrowly survived. The Taliban had forbidden women to be outdoors unaccompanied or engage in sport, now Freshta vowed to do both on the grandest stage possible; her and her friends would become Afghanistan's first female mountaineers.

Freshta is planning to become the first Afghan woman to summit Mount Everest to send a message of hope and resilience to the women of Afghanistan.


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Director: Amelia Steele

With thanks to: Freshta Ibrahimi, Martin Hartley, Robin Edwards