Ripcord Adventure Journal 2.2
Our sixth issue of Ripcord Adventure Journal is a very different beast to its five earlier siblings, whose articles and images were, in the main, submitted by adventurous travel writers and photographers; in this issue however, we have brought together 11 accomplished explorers and adventurers who write about their unique experience of life, lived to the maximum and danced to a different beat.
Our sixth issue of Ripcord Adventure Journal is a very different beast to its five earlier siblings, whose articles and images were, in the main, submitted by adventurous travel writers and photographers; in this issue however, we have brought together 11 accomplished explorers and adventurers who write about their unique experience of life, lived to the maximum and danced to a different beat.
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Nungshi & Tashi Malik<br />
Despite roots in rural Haryana notorious for its skewed sex ratio in<br />
favor of boys, Nungshi Malik along with her twin sister has<br />
achieved several global gender iconic milestones.<br />
They are the world’s first siblings and twins to complete the<br />
‘<strong>Adventure</strong>rs Grand Slam’ (scaling highest peaks in all continents<br />
and skiing to North and South Poles). They are also world’s<br />
youngest persons ever and the first South Asians to complete it.<br />
They are also the youngest South Asians to scale the Seven Summits<br />
and to reach the South and North Pole on Skis. The twins were<br />
featured in 60th edition of Guinness World Records, 2015.<br />
In 2015 they founded the NungshiTashi Foundation dedicated to<br />
advancing the lives of Indian girls and women through outdoors,<br />
adventure sports and mountaineering<br />
Recently they attended the US govt’s Global Sports Mentorship<br />
Program for ‘emerging women leaders in sports’. Nungshi and Tashi<br />
are both Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, London. In<br />
2016 the twins received the Leif Erikson Young Explorer Award<br />
from the Exploration Museum in Iceland.
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