When Malika Khan got the chance to try skiing on a dry slope with her local youth group, she grabbed it with both hands — but she couldn’t help but notice the lack of diversity.
“As a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab, there was no one like me when I started,” says the 21-year-old from Sparkhill in Birmingham, who believes that the prevailing stereotype of a skier in Britain — that of a white, wealthy, middle-aged man — has a big part to play in this. “Being part of an Asian community, I never thought I’d get the opportunity to do something like this.”
