Double Amputee Gurkha Makes History Scaling Everest
Hari Budhamagar, a double amputee ex-British Gurkha soldier, has become the first person in his category to scale Mount Everest with artificial legs. He lost both his legs in the war in Afghanistan while fighting as a soldier of British Gorkha for the UK government in 2010. He had postponed his plan to scale Mt Everest in 2018 after the government introduced a mountaineering regulation that banned blind, double-amputee and solo climbers from climbing the mountains, including Everest in 2017.