Her father eventually gave his permission for the trip and that was the beginning of her groundbreaking mountaineering career. She became the youngest Arab and the first Saudi woman to conquer Everest, and she has climbed to the top of the seven highest mountains on each continent. Raha has become a symbol of the struggle to acquire more rights for women in Saudi Arabia. She understands that the challenges Saudi women face aren't going to disappear overnight: "You will always have barriers. But you are the ones who are supposed to fight them. I'm an average, simple girl. I was born in Jeddah, I was born in the sand, yet I managed to touch the sky. Don't tell me that we are not capable of wonders, don't tell me that we are less capable than other people.”