Zed "Zeddy" Al Refai (born October 28, 1966) is a Kuwaiti climber.
[1] Al Refai spent part of his childhood in the USA and attended university at institutions in Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
He spent holidays trekking in New England, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest.
[2] Mountains he has summitted include Mount McKinley in Alaska - North America's highest mountain -, Elbrus, the Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Everest, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica (where he reached the summit on January 13, 2004), and, to complete the Seven Summits challenge, Aconcagua in Argentina (where he reached on February 5, 2004).
[3] Al Refai is director of the Arabian Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing Club,[4] an organization founded in an attempt to popularise mountain climbing among people in the Middle East.