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- Aconcagua2014
- Denali2014
- Everest2017
- Elbrus2012
- Kilimanjaro2011
- Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid)2015
- Vinson2018
“Bouchra Baibanou’s daring knows no upper limit. She is the only North African to have conquered Mount Everest, the only Moroccan to have climbed to the highest peak of each of the seven continents. Adventuring to the most perilous places on earth, the 53-year-old has endured weeks away from her family to camp on vertiginous shelves of ice, a hair’s breadth away from death by avalanche. And still she ascends. After 30 years at the top, Bouchra can’t stop, won’t stop.” (Source: TheGentleWoman 2022)
In 1995, when Baibanou was 25, she climbed her first peak, Toubkal (4,167 m,13,671 ft), the tallest peak in the Atlas Mountains. The experience encouraged her to continue mountaineering.
In March 2011, she summitted Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres [19,341 ft]) while on an expedition with her husband. At Kiliminjaro, she met Singaporean alpinist, Khoo Swee Chiow, who invited her to climb Mont Blanc (4,810 metres [15,780 ft]). After training with Chiow, in June that year, she reached the summit.
After climbing Kiliminjaro and Mont Blanc, at age 42 she decided to pursue the Seven Summits, to reach the highest point on each continent. Next, she climbed Mount Elbrus in June 2012, Aconcagua and Denali in June 2014 and then Puncak Jaya in November 2015.
In April 2017, she launched an expedition to Mount Everest, her second to last peak for the seven summits. On May 21 at 9 in the morning, she reached the summit, becoming the first Moroccan and North African woman to do so.
In December 2018, she reached the summit of Antarctica’s Mount Vinson, her final peak to complete all seven summits.
In reaching the top, she became the first person from Morocco to complete the seven summits, and only the second Arab woman to do so.