Indian mountaineers Tashi and Nungshi Malik are only 30 years old, yet they have already been on more adventures than most people will in their entire lives.
The “Everest Twins”, as they are known, were the first siblings and twins to climb the Seven Summits – the highest mountains on each continent – and were also the first to reach both the North and South Poles, making them the only Indians to have completed the prestigious “Explorers Grand Slam” so far.
It took them less than two years to achieve this feat, beginning with their ascent of Mount Everest in May 2013 alongside Samina Baig – the first Pakistani woman to climb the world’s highest peak – and ending with their April 2015 North Pole expedition in which they also became the first twins to complete the Three Poles Challenge, the third pole being Everest.
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