Climb this mountain
Ladakh delivers the entire women’s ice hockey team.There are countless opportunities lurking in the nooks and crannies of this country, which but await someone seeing them. In the newly minted Union territory of Ladakh, the summer is short while the winter is long, harsh and mind-bending. But for 19 women who form our national ice hockey team, it is the time when the region turns into their playground.
Did you even know that India boasts a women’s ice hockey team? Theirs is an archetypal against-the-odds story. The team’s goalkeeper Noor Jahan says that they started out with equipment borrowed from the men’s team, where the gear would be oversized sometimes or the skates too tight. What they did have were local lakes and ponds that would helpfully freeze and let them practise. Even if this surface is completely different from the artificial one of many international competitions, they could play ice hockey on it, when weather made the likes of football or cricket out of the question. Plus, of course, the women had grit and a resolute dream – to play for India. The demanding high-altitude terrain may not be for the tender of lungs or spirit. Team captain Tsewang Chuskit says, even now the young girls who look to her for inspiration would think this game is not reaching anywhere. Officially it is not recognised in India, neither by IOA nor the sports ministry. But possibilism is a potent force – so that mountain too shall be climbed.
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