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Afghan Women’s Cycling Needs Your Support!

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For the past five years, Mountain 2 Mountain has been working in Afghanistan to create education and opportunities for women and girls. In 2009, Shannon became the first woman to mountain bike in Afghanistan. Last fall, Shannon discovered an underground movement of female cyclists – not just riding their bikes, but cycling as part of the newly formed Afghan National Cycling Team. Mountain 2 Mountain was featured on a NBC Nightly News last week: Recently, Mountain 2 Mountain publicized a [...]
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M2M: Changing Lives in Afghanistan

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Mountain2Mountain is a nonprofit organization working to help empower the people of Afghanistan, with a focus on women and girls and gender equality.  M2M advances its mission through education, training, job creation and efforts to save the lives of Afghan women in childbirth and their babies. In 2009, M2M Founder Shannon Galpin became the first woman to ride a mountain bike in Afghanistan, a country where women are unable to ride bikes.  The Panjshir Tour was created to commemorate that [...]
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