Nungshi & Tashi are the world’s first siblings and twins as well as the youngest people and the first South Asians to complete the ‘Adventurers Grand Slam’ (scaling highest peaks in all continents including Everest, and skiing to North and South Poles). Guinness World Records has already featured them for several of these including first female twins to scale Everest, first twins and siblings to scale the Seven Summits and to complete Explorers Grand Slam.

Popularly known as ‘Everest twins’, Nungshi and Tashi dedicated their adventure mission to Indian girl child with the motto ‘Gender Equality Now: Fight Female Feticide’. They use their climbing as a metaphor for the invisible mountains of gender discrimination, exclusion and denial of basic rights that millions of girls in India have to climb daily. They are brand ambassadors of Uttarakhand state for its ‘beti-bachao (save daughter)’ campaign. Last year they started ‘NungshiTashi Foundation’ with the twin objectives of promoting Outdoors Leadership and girl empowerment through Outdoors.

Verve magazine featured the twins among India’s top 50 power women. A UK based charity on girl empowerment ‘girl guiding’ selected them among the top ten most inspiring women under 25 years of age alongside Malala Yusufzai and actress Emma Watson.

2016 was a great year. They won India’s highest adventure award, the prestigious ‘Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2015’ conferred by the President of India. The President of Iceland, conferred the ‘2016 Leif Erikson Young Explorers Award’ to the twins in 2016 too.

NungshiTashi are accomplished speakers having delivered scores of talks to schools, colleges, rotary clubs, corporate, alpine clubs and civil society organizations in India, USA, Chile, Brazil, UK and New Zealand. They have also delivered TEDx talk in New Delhi and at TEDx Queenstown, New Zealand.