Every winter morning, in temperatures that often dip to minus 30, a girls’ hockey team heads out for its daily skate.
The practice is not in Canada but on a frozen lake in the Himalaya Mountains of northern India.
India’s first women’s ice hockey team was unknown until about a year ago when a video went viral and changed their fortune.
Four-time Canadian ice hockey Olympian Hayley Wickenheiser and Stanley Cup champion Andrew Ference are among 13 people heading to the remote village of Ladakh to empower the group of unexpected young female hockey players.