Double Amputee Veteran Conquers Everest in Historic Climb

Hari Budha Magar, 43, a former Gurkha soldier in the British army, who had lost his legs in Afghanistan after stepping on an explosive device in 2010, is not deterred by his physical condition. Equipped with prosthetic legs, he had climbed Mount Toubkal in Morocco, Ben Nevis in Scotland, and Mont Blanc in Europe.

After the 2018 Supreme Court of Nepal’s cancellation of a law prohibiting double amputees and the blind from climbing Everest, Magar embarked on a new challenge: to climb Everest, the highest summit in the world from sea level. "As long as you can adapt your life to time and situation, anything is possible, there is no limit, the sky is the limit," he had said. The climber met this challenge last week.