The Wanderlust Women

There was a time when Amira Patel had never hiked, and upon her first 3km hike up Rivington Pike with her mother, Aysha, she struggled. A few years on, and Amira has now inspired and created an outdoors community of over 1000 Muslim women in a social hiking group called ‘The Wanderlust Women’.

This is Amira and Aysha’s story of joint turmoil resulting in a discovery of the outdoors, as well as their experiences of
diversifying the space as Muslim women.

This short film has been released and is currently doing the film festival circuit.

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CREDITS

Hikers: Amira Patel & Aysha Yilmaz

Filmmaker: Frit Tam