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Boots & Beards

Zain Sehgal is one of the founding members of Boots & Beards, a Glasgow-based Asian hillwalking club.

“Boots & Beards started off as a familyorientated project. The idea was to get the younger generation (our own kids!) to move away from technology and explore what we used to explore back in the days. As a family unit, we decided that the parents would take the kids every second week and we would make an effort to get out and enjoy what we have on our own doorstep. When we were out at these beautiful locations we would take pictures and videos, and when we got back we would post these on social media. Then our

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