Tashi and Nungshi Malik

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.

Malik twins
Tashi and Nungshi Malik doing endurance trek at the foothills of Himalayas
Born
Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik

(1991-06-21) June 21, 1991
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
OccupationMountaineers/Explorers
Known forFirst female twins and siblings to climb Mount Everest, Seven Summits and completed the Explorer's Grand Slam.
Websitetwinclimbers.com

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, and his wife Anjoo Thapa in Anwali Sonipat district of Haryana. Their family 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 April 13th 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]

At summit of Mount McKinley, Alaska

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 World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji 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]

Seven Summits climbing details [19]
No. Image peak Elevation Mountain Range Continent Date of Summit
1 Mount Everest 8,848 m (29,029 ft) Himalaya Asia May 19, 2013
2 Aconcagua 6,961 m (22,838 ft) Andes South America January 29, 2014
3 Denali 6,194 m (20,322 ft) Alaska Range North America June 4, 2014
4 Kilimanjaro 5,895 m (19,341 ft) Eastern Rift mountains Africa July 15, 2015
5 Mount Elbrus 5,642 m (18,510 ft) Caucasus Mountains Europe August 22, 2013
6 Mount Vinson 4,892 m (16,050 ft) Sentinel Range Antarctica December 14, 2014
7 Puncak Jaya 4,884 m (16,024 ft) Sudirman Range Australia March 19, 2014

North pole and South pole
No Image Pole Year
1 North Pole April 21, 2015[20]
2 South Pole December 28, 2014[19]

Honours and awards
President Shri Ram Nath Kovind presenting the 2019 Nari Shakti Puruskar to Tashi Malik on 8 March 2020

See also

References
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  11. Guinness World Records (10 September 2015). Guinness World Records 2016. Guinness World Records. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-910561-03-4.
  12. Jaisinghani, Bella (18 December 2014). "Haryanvi twins hit record by conquering Seven Summits". Times of India. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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  14. Jaisinghani, Bella (23 April 2015). "Mountaineer twins first to conquer both Poles on skis". Times of India. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
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  16. Roxburgh, Tracey (7 December 2016). "Twins peak: a Mt Cook first". Otago Daily Times Online News.
  17. "Bear Grylls set to bring Worlds Toughest Race to OTT world". www.outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  18. "Amazon Sets More Than 60 Teams to Compete on 'Eco-Challenge' Reboot From Mark Burnett, Bear Grylls". TheWrap. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  19. "Tashi and Nungshi Malik -seven-summits climbing details". www.armadillomerino.com. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  20. Kamal, Sara (23 April 2015). "Nungshi And Tashi Malik: Making Us Proud At The North Pole". Newsmakers. Women's Web. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  21. "SIT represented at Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame ceremony > Southern Institute of Technology, NZ". www.sit.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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  25. "Mountaineer Harbhajan gets Tenzing Norgay award".
  26. "'Everest twins' bag Leif Erikson Explorer Award in Iceland". 29 October 2016.
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