Hari Budha Magar reached the peak despite being a double amputee since an explosion in Afghanistan
A Gurkha soldier veteran who lost both legs in Afghanistan has achieved mountaineering history after reaching the top ofHari Budha Magar, who lives in Canterbury, Kent, reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain at 3pm on Friday, having started the climb on 17 April – exactly 13 years since he lost his legs after an IED explosion.
He continued: “When I came down we ran out of oxygen. The guys came up with oxygen … I was bumping down on my bum and we had 30, 40 minutes of oxygen, and we still had about two, three hours to get down.”Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images “I grew up in Nepal, up to age of 19, and I saw how the disabled people were treated in those remote villages,” he said. “Many people still think that disability is a sin of previous life and you are the burden of the earth. I believed this myself because that is what I saw. That is how I grew up.”
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