Nasrieen (left) and Makiya pull their snow tubes on top of a hill during an outing organised by the group the former founded to promote outdoors activities among Muslim women. Photo: MARK VANCLEAVE/AP
ICE crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero (-18°C) one January morning.
She had joined two dozen other members of a group founded by a Somali-American mother in Minneapolis to promote all-seasons activities among Muslim women, who might otherwise feel singled out in the great outdoors, especially when wearing hijab.
