An Uphill Battle

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A documentary about Afghanistan’s first team of female mountaineers, who plan to climb and summit Afghanistan’s highest mountain. - AN UPHILL BATTLEA film by Theresa Breuer & Erin TriebA team of female Afghan mountaineers is defying their country’s cultural rules by training to summit Mount Noshaq (24,580ft / 7,500 meters), Afghanistan’s highest peak and the second highest mountain in the Hindu Kush range, never before summited by an Afghan woman.SYNOPSIS While women’s rights in Afghanistan have somewhat improvedsince the invasion of foreign forces almost two dec ...

Read More ades ago,many women and girls - especially in rural areas - still live indarkness. In an effort to challenge these gendernorms and give voice and agency to Afghan women and girls, Ascend Athletics, a non-profit all-female mountaineering organizationand team based in Kabul, aims to nurture a “crop of Afghan heroines passionate a

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