Born and raised in the Minnesota, Amy Subaey has also lived in Bahrain and Egypt and moved to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2002. But when she was suddenly fired from her position as an English instructor at an energy company during the Covid pandemic, she found herself unemployed in a foreign country with her teenage daughter, and no clue in which direction to take her career. So she decided to follow her passion.
As an enthusiastic hiker and mountain climber, during her time in Dubai, Subaey had struggled to find like-minded people to trek with her, so in 2011 she had started a weekend hiking group. A few years later she turned it into a business called UAE Trekkers, running weekend hikes while she continued to teach English in the week.
After losing her job in 2020, Subaey, who is now aged 55, decided to focus her energies on UAE Trekkers, which now has more than 30,000 followers on social media and offers guided hikes to over 60,000 people.
No longer working a nine-to-five, she regularly wakes up at 3 am on weekdays to lead treks around some of the most breathtaking scenery surrounding Dubai, such as the exclave (飞地) of Hatta, Sharjah, Fujairah, and the neighboring country of Oman, home to Snake Canyon, a deep gorge that allows hikers to dive into its water-filled pools. She even offers a specialist sunset hike across the Liwa desert in Abu Dhabi — used as a location for filming “Dune Part Two”.
Subaey’s goal was always to get people out of Dubai city, into nature, and have them fall in love with hiking. “You can’t really feel your problems when you’re in out in nature,” she says. “Just being outside in the fresh air is so peaceful; it makes me more absorbed in the present moment. I stay out for three or four hours and once I get back, I feel so refreshed.”
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