Youngster Crowdfunds Antarctica Trip

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    • Publish Date: May 4 2017 3:03PM
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Youngster Crowdfunds Antarctica Trip

 When most of us talk about 'travelling', we refer to that odd weekend getaway to the hills or a trip to Goa or Kerala with friends. Some lucky ones can talk about overseas vacations. But 23-year-old Mallika Arya from Gurgaon just went to the remotest place in the world, Antarctica. The Gurgaon girl was part of the International Antarctic Expedition 2017, an 82-member group led by renowned climate change expert Robert Swan, that visited the frozen continent in March. Mallika, who is currently on her break year, speaks to GT after her return from Antarctica to Gurgaon.



Sharing how she happened to be a part of the expedition, Mallika tells us, "I had taken the year off for travelling and was doing a month-long trip of south India. During the trip, I met a girl who had been on an expedition to Antarctica. She suggested that I try for the 2017 expedition. So I wrote to Robert Swan, the head of the expedition, last August, and he replied that he would love for me to join, provided I could raise funds for my journey." Consequently, Mallika set up a crowdfunding platform for her trip, where she raised around Rs7.5 lakh. "I needed around Rs12 lakh for the expedition, and after putting in most of my savings, I was still quite short on the funds. So I set up a crowdfunding platform and raised the rest through that over the next few months," she tells us.


Mallika says her family was quite supportive of her plan. Her father is a photographer and mother, a school teacher, and she says that both completely backed the idea. "My family has always been supportive of my love for travel and they were completely behind me through this too," she says.


Travelling to Antarctica was a beautiful experience in itself, says Mallika, but adds that nothing prepares one for the sheer beauty of the frozen continent. She says, "I think the most special moment of the entire trip was when I saw an iceberg for the first time. It was something so beautiful, so untouched, and pure that I could not stop tears rolling down my eyes. It is a sight that very few people have seen, and I was privileged to be among those few. It was an emotional high for me."

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