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Tashi and Nungshi Malik born on 21 June 1991 are world's 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. They have won several awards including the Nari Shakti Puraskar by the Government of India in 2020. This is the highest award for women in India.
The twins 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, USA. In 2015 the twin sisters graduated in Sport and Exercise from Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, New Zealand.
Career, Hobbies & Passion
The Malik sisters are celebrated mountaineers and were trained at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in 2010. The twin sisters scaled Mount Everest, becoming the first twin sisters to do so. The twins also had participated in 'Climbathon 2013' where they scaled a virgin peak at 21000 ft funded by Indian Mountaineering Foundation in Aug 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. They are the first Indian and South Asians to complete the Explorers Grand Slam.
In September 2019, Nungshi and Tashi selected and led team India 'Khukuri Warriors' in the World's Toughest Race 'Eco Challenge Fiji' that pitched 66 teams of top 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.
Early life
The Everest twins, Tashi and Nungshi Malik originally hail from Haryana state, India. They were born to an Indian Army officer, Col Virendra Singh Malik, of Anwali village in Sonepat District of Haryana and his wife Anjoo Thapa of Uttarakhand. The Malik family is settled in Dehradun after Col Malik's retirement from the Indian army.The twins 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, USA. In 2015 the twin sisters graduated in Sport and Exercise from Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, New Zealand.
Career, Hobbies & Passion
The Malik sisters are celebrated mountaineers and were trained at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in 2010. The twin sisters scaled Mount Everest, becoming the first twin sisters to do so. The twins also had participated in 'Climbathon 2013' where they scaled a virgin peak at 21000 ft funded by Indian Mountaineering Foundation in Aug 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. They are the first Indian and South Asians to complete the Explorers Grand Slam.
In September 2019, Nungshi and Tashi selected and led team India 'Khukuri Warriors' in the World's Toughest Race 'Eco Challenge Fiji' that pitched 66 teams of top 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.
Rewards & Recognitions
- President Shri Ram Nath Kovind presented the 2019 Nari Shakti Puruskar to Tashi Malik on 8 March 2020
- Awarded first New Zealand-India Sports Scholarship to study Graduation in Sport & Exercise at SIT, Invercargill, NZ
- Attended US Dept of State's 'Global Sports Mentoring Program' for emerging women leaders in sports in Sep-Oct 2015
- Conferred India's highest adventure honour 'Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award' 2015 by the President of India on 29 August 2016
- In 2016 they were awarded the Leif Erikson Young Explorers Award in Iceland by president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
- In Sep 2019 they were recommended by the sports ministry for Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
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