Amy Subaey was born and raised in the Minnesota. She has also lived in Bahrain and Egypt and moved to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2002. She used to be an English teacher at a university. But during the Covid pandemic (流行病), she was suddenly fired from her position. She found herself out of job in a foreign country with her teenage daughter, and didn’t know what to do next. So she decided to do what she loved.
Subaey is a crazy hiker and mountain climber. During her time in Dubai, she found it not easy 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. It now has more than 30,000 followers on social media and offers guided hikes to over 60,000 people.
Subaey no longer works a nine-to-five at the university. She wakes up at 3 am on weekdays to lead hikes around some of the most breathtaking scenery surrounding Dubai. She even offers a specialist sunset hike across the Liwa desert in Abu Dhabi.
Subaey wanted 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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