Women and Girls contributor: Malavika Vyawahare Malavika Vyawahare is a New Delhi-based freelance journalist who writes on nature, culture and everything in between. The alum of Columbia Journalism School believes in narrowing the chasm between narratives produced in the developed and developing world through her reporting. https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/contributor/malavika-vyawahare/rss en In Afghanistan, a Group of Women Move Mountains by Climbing Them Education Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:32:23 +0000 Malavika Vyawahare https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2016/12/14/afghanistan-group-women-move-mountains-climbing https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2016/12/14/afghanistan-group-women-move-mountains-climbing One charity is challenging cultural attitudes in Afghanistan by training all-female teams of mountaineers to scale some of Afghanistan’s highest peaks and experience the freedom they’ve long been denied.