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International Women’s Day: meet female mountain guiders leading tours in Afghanistan, India and Tajikistan Justine Gosling © Provided by The Independent Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day, which celebrates the achievements of women and calls for action to accelerate gender parity. This year’s theme is “Women in leadership: achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world.” UN Women, which coordinates the campaign, is encouraging the use of the hashtag #ChooseToChallenge, declaring that a challenged world is an alert world; and from challenge, comes change. Gender inequalities are especially present in mountain and guiding communities. Perhaps the most remarkable example of this is on the summit of the world’s highest mountain. In 1953, two men, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing, were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It wasn’t until 22 years later that the first female stood on the summit: Japanese woman Junko Tabei. Even t

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