Two Indian sisters, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records for scaling Mount Everest and the Seven Summits as the first women twins, are now planning to conquer Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain.
Nungshi and Tashi Malik, known as "Everest Twins" for their mountain climbing achievements, are in the UK to raise awareness for the 'Beti Bachao' campaign.
They entered the Guinness Book of world Records as the first women twins to scale Everest and first twins/siblings to scale the Seven Summits, are on a mission to raise funds for their NungshiTashi Foundation in the UK this month.
The next mission on the twins' calendar is to climb Mount Cook in December, the highest mountain in New Zealand. If successful, this will again be a first as twins.
"The foundation is dedicated to advancing and empowering the lives of Indian girls and women through outdoors, adventure sports and mountaineering. We have stretched our family's resources as far as they can go and want to raise awareness to attract funds for this mission," said Nungshi, president of the foundation.