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On December 29, 2009, Reena Kaushal Dharamshaktu made a historic ski-run as part of an eight-woman commonwealth Antarctica team, which undertook the 900-kilometer Antarctic ice trek to reach the South Pole, marking 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth. Till date Reena is the only IndRead More...

On December 29, 2009, Reena Kaushal Dharamshaktu made a historic ski-run as part of an eight-woman commonwealth Antarctica team, which undertook the 900-kilometer Antarctic ice trek to reach the South Pole, marking 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth. Till date Reena is the only Indian to have made this extreme trek to the South Pole from the coast of Antarctica in 38 days. She was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award -- India’s highest honor in adventure and exploration. Reena has attended mountaineering courses at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) in Darjeeling and has taken part in and led several expeditions in the Himalayas.
Currently, Reena is among the main administrators of India’s youngest mountaineering institute Pandit Nain Singh Surveyor Mountaineering Training Institute in Munshiyari. Her husband, Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu is a very successful mountaineer who has reached the summit of the world’s tallest Mount Everest 5 times (an Indian record), besides climbing 38 other peaks.

As a speaker:
Reena brings with her the experience of staying motivated when things get tough, achieving high performance, self-belief and succeeding against the odds. She has also inspired several girls and women to take up adventure sports as a livelihood.

Her presentation:
Reena will take the audience on an audio-visual and narrative journey of super-human effort of her expedition to the South Pole.
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