Climb Your Everest | Sara Safari | TEDxIHEParis

Sara survived the avalanches on Mt. Everest, as a result of the devastating 7.8 earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015. In her talk, she paints her journey from teaching engineering to climbing mountains to help the Empower Nepali Girls foundation. This talk, however, does not explain how to climb the highest mountain in the world, but rather on how to summit your inner peaks. Sara advocates that the Everest for 2017, and the rest of the 21st century, is the same for all of us - women’s empowerment - and invites us to climb it together.

Sara Safari is an author, speaker, mountain climber, college professor and advocate for women’s empowerment. She was born in Iran and moved to the USA in 2002 to continue her education in electrical engineering. While teaching at California State University Fullerton, Sara met the founder of the Empower Nepali Girls foundation. She decided to climb Mt. Everest to raise funds and awareness for the girls who become victims of human trafficking or are forced into early marriage. She is now a board member and director of development of Empower Nepali Girls and she dedicated her book “Follow My Footsteps” to this organisation.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx