Gurkha soldier from Nepal, who lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan, made history by winning Everest.

Harry Buda Magar, who lives in Canterbury, Kent, began his ascent to the top of the world’s highest mountain on April 17, exactly 13 years after he lost both lower limbs in a bomb blast, and managed to accomplish the feat last afternoon. Friday.

He and his fellow trekkers, after waiting 18 days at the foot of Everest until the weather improves, found in extremely cold conditions in doing so, they witnessed the discovery of two bodies.

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Around 3:00 pm on May 19, Hari triumphed atop the world’s highest mountain, becoming the first double above-the-knee amputee to summit Everest.

Thirteen years after he lost his legs in… pic.twitter.com/a24j5ZYkvo

— Hari Budha Magar (@Hari_BudhaMagar) May 20, 2023

“All my jackets are frozen. Even our hot water, which we poured into a thermos, froze, we could not drink it,” he told the RA news agency.

However, adverse weather conditions caused his oxygen mask and goggles to freeze, leaving him only a few minutes on top of the world. However, Buddha Magar was createdthe world’s first person with an amputation above the knee and both lower limbs, who climbed Mount Everest.

On May 19, 2023, @hari_budha_magar and his team made history by becoming the first person with a double above-the-knee amputation to reach the summit of Everest. Despite the fact that he lost his legs in Afghanistan 13 years ago, he proves that disability is not a hindrance. #Everest70 #HariBudhaMagar #Inspiration pic.twitter.com/MEVIIRgIOq

— Everest 70 (@everest70th) May 20, 2023

As he admits, after the accident that deprived him of his legs, he felt that “my life is over” while struggling with alcohol and depression.

“I grew up in Nepal until I was 19 and saw how people with disabilities were treated in remote villages. Many consider disability the result of the sin of a past life, and you – a rat.. I believed the same thing because that’s what I saw, that’s how I grew up,” he says.

“It was a really hard time, and at one point I drank so much just to control the pain and my emotions, and even made two suicide attempts,” he says, adding that he first dreamed of climbing Everest when he was student. and went to school barefoot.

Update from Team Khari Off the Mountain – just a message that earlier this week Hari and his team climbed up the mountain again and today successfully climbed from camp 2 to camp 3 and will continue to the summit in the coming days, weather and conditions .

Harry… pic.twitter.com/IVRm6Kbj5q

— Hari Budha Magar (@Hari_BudhaMagar) May 17, 2023

He planned to do so in 2018, but double amputees and the visually impaired are banned from climbing to prevent climbers from dying.

Magar left Nepal to serve as a corporal in the Gurga Corps of the British Army in Afghanistan.

He himself looks forward to meeting his family, as well as returning to Afghanistan, where he had an accident, to say “thank you” to him.

“Without this amputation, I would not have climbed Everest. Whatever happens happens foreverhe concludes.

Source: Guardian