In 2013, Al Thani found a bucket list she had written several years before, which included the resolution of climbing a mountain.

[4] She began training shortly afterwards and in 2014 she was part of a group of climbers who were the first Qatari women to summit Kilimanjaro.

[5] She was part of an all-female Euro-Arabian Polar expedition, which was led by Felicity Aston[5] who was the first woman to travel unaided across the Antarctic mainland.

[7][8] Earlier that year, she also summited Mount Elbrus in Russia, and Dhaulagiri and the eighth highest mountain, Manaslu in Nepal.

[14] She and her team carried a football created by Adidas for the FIFA World Cup Qatar to the summit of Everest.