Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu (Hindi: रीना कौशल धर्मशक्तू) is the first Indian woman to ski from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole covering a distance of 900 kilometers.
[4] Her husband, Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu is also a mountaineer, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest seven times.
She also climbed Fluted Peak, Stok Kangri, Mt Nun and others.
On 29 December 2009, Dharmshaktu made the historic ski-run as part of an eight-woman Commonwealth team (the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition)[5] which crossed a 900 kilometer Antarctic ice trek to reach the South Pole, marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.
[1][6] She was selected from among 800 applicants from Brunei, Cyprus, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Singapore, New Zealand and the UK.