Tashi and Nungshi Malik explained

Malik twins
Birth Name:Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik
Birth Date: 21 June 1991 df=yes
Birth Place:Anwali village, Sonipat district, Haryana, India
Occupation:Mountaineers/Explorers
Known For:First female twins and siblings to climb Mount Everest, Seven Summits and completed the Explorer's Grand Slam.

Tashi and Nungshi Malik (born 21 June 1991)[1] are the first siblings and twins to climb the Seven Summits and reach the North and South Poles and complete the Adventurers Grand Slam and Three Poles Challenge.

Personal life

The Malik twins (Tashi and Nungshi) originally hail from Haryana state, India.[2] They were born to an Indian Army officer, Col. Virendra Singh Malik from village Anwali Sonipat district of Haryana, and his wife Anjoo Thapa. They settled in Dehradun after Col Malik's retirement from the Indian army.[3]

The girls attended several schools in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Manipur, including Lawrence School, Lovedale, near Ootacamund. In 2013 they completed graduation in Journalism and Mass communication from Sikkim Manipal University. They have a Certificate in Peace and Conflict Resolution from School of International Training in Vermont, United States. In 2015 the twin sisters graduated in Sport and Exercise from Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, New Zealand.[4] [5]

On 13 April 2023, Nungshi Malik married Avinash Jacob Varghese in her home town Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Shortly after they moved to Invercargill, New Zealand where they currently reside.

Mountaineering

The Malik sisters trained at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in 2010.[3] On Sunday, 19 May 2013, they scaled Mount Everest, becoming the first twin sisters to do so.[6] [7] They were joined at the summit by Samina Baig and they placed the flags of India and Pakistan together to symbolise peace.[8] [9] [10]

The twins participated in 'Climbathon 2013' where they scaled a virgin peak at 21000 ft funded by Indian Mountaineering Foundation in August 2013. They are also the first female twins to complete Seven Summits, complete the Explorers Grand Slam and the youngest people to complete the Three Pole Challenge.[11] On 16 December 2014, after climbing Mount Vinson in Antarctica, they became world's first twins and siblings to scale the 'Seven Summits' together.[12] [13]

After scaling Mount Everest on 19 May 2013 they completed the Explorers Grand Slam on 15 July 2015 in just over two years.[14] They are the first Indian and South Asians to complete the Explorers Grand Slam.[15] In Dec 2015, the twins scaled Aoraki (Mt Cook) New Zealand's tallest peak becoming first female twins to do so.[16] In September 2019, Nungshi and Tashi led Indian 'Khukuri Warriors' in the that pitched 66 teams of adventure athletes from 30 nations against forces of nature and against each other traversing 671 km of rugged Fijian landscape, ocean, rivers, lakes and jungles using dozen adventure activities. They became the first and only South Asians to participate in this global adventure race.[17] [18]

In 2019, the sisters were awarded the prestigious Edmund Hillary Fellowship by New Zealand Government.[19]

Seven Summits climbing details [20]

No. Image peakElevationMountain RangeContinent Date of Summit
1Mount Everest88480NaN0HimalayaAsia19 May 2013
2Aconcagua69610NaN0AndesSouth America29 January 2014
3Denali61940NaN0Alaska RangeNorth America4 June 2014
4Kilimanjaro58950NaN0Eastern Rift mountainsAfrica15 July 2015
5Mount Elbrus56420NaN0Caucasus MountainsEurope22 August 2013
6Mount Vinson48920NaN0Sentinel RangeAntarctica14 December 2014
7Puncak Jaya48840NaN0Sudirman RangeAustralia19 March 2014

North pole and South pole

No Image PoleYear
1North Pole21 April 2015[21]
2South Pole28 December 2014

Honours and awards

thumb|President Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the 2019 Nari Shakti Puruskar to Tashi Malik on 8 March 2020

See also

References

Notes and References

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