Zidan was part of a four-member group called Arabs with Altitude, which included the first Saudi woman Raha Moharrak, the first Qatari man, Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani and Iranian, Masoud Mohammed, that reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 2013.
In February 2013, she reached the highest Argentine summit Aconcagua, and had been in Nepal since early April 2013 getting ready to execute her plan to conquer Mount Everest.