Ep. 410: The 7 Summits and Explorers Grand Slam with Tashi and Nungshi Malik

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness, Science, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

These twins are no joke. Their list of achievements are impressive, especially when you consider they're only 27 years old! This was an interview to remember and we hope you enjoy!

Take a look at what they've done together:

World records

First female twins to scale Mt Everest (Climbed at 21 years of age)
First siblings & twins to climb 'Seven Summits' (highest peaks in all continents)
First siblings & twins to complete Adventurers Grand Slam & the Three Pole Challenge
Youngest persons ever to complete Adventurers Grand Slam & the Three Pole Challenge (until 12 April 2017, now held by Marin Minamiya of Japan)
First twins to reach South Pole on Skis (last degree)
First twins to reach North Pole on Skis, (last degree)
First female twins to scale Mt Cook, New Zealand's tallest peak on 2 December 2016

National and regional records

First South Asians to complete Adventurers Grand Slam & the Three Pole Challenge
Youngest and Fastest South Asians to complete Adventurers Grand Slam & the Three Pole Challenge (two years and a month)
Youngest South Asians to scale the 'Seven Summits'
First Indian women to climb all 'Seven Summits' in first attempt (overall second Indian women and third Indians)
Youngest and fastest South Asians to reach North & South Pole on Skis (completed in less than four months)

Honours and awards

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
On 23 October 2016, awarded 2016 Leif Erikson Young Explorer Award in Husavik, by the President of Iceland

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We were, honestly, we were very terrified.
0:12.0	We're just like, I don't think we belong here.
0:15.0	We need to get the hell out of here.
0:17.0	And, you know, going through this whole scene, I mean, you know,
0:20.0	we trekked through these thick Papuan rainforests, and it was quite intense.
0:25.8	You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech.
0:30.2	We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already
0:37.7	there.
0:42.6	So, before we get started today, I wanted to reintroduce myself.
0:47.4	My name is Mason Gravely, and my wife and I, her name is Emily, we're going to be helping
0:53.0	Kurt and Travis out with some production,
0:55.2	with some hosting, with some editing of the show.
0:58.0	So we wanted to just make sure you get more familiar with their voices, and we also wanted
1:02.8	to make some announcements.
1:05.3	As all of you know, nothing in life is free, including this podcast.
1:11.4	It costs money, it costs time and energy to produce this.
1:15.5	And one way that you can help ensure this show will keep going is becoming a patron in the show.
1:21.9	And I apologize.
1:23.1	I don't typically sound like this.
1:24.9	I have a little bit of a cold.
1:26.5	So it's making me sound funny.
1:29.1	Anyway, if you want to become a patron of the show, go to patreon.com slash adventure sports podcast.
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