KATHMANDU, Feb 5: Former Gurkha soldier Hari Budhamagar has left for Solukhumbu to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.
On Wednesday, he left for Everest Base Camp via the Tribhuvan Airport. He is a bilateral amputee, a condition of missing both legs. He is about to climb Mount Everest with the help of prosthetic legs. He was also the first person who performed “skydiving” reaching the base camp of Mount Everest with the help of artificial legs.
Before going to Solukhumbu to climb Mount Everest, he said he was happy to be allowed to climb Mount Everest after five years of waiting. He expressed his belief that his successful climbing of Mount Everest will bring happiness to all Nepalis.
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He said that the successful climbing of Mount Everest is important for him to instill confidence in other people like him that people with physical disabilities are not weaker than anyone else. He said that it would take him two months to climb Mount Everest.
In 2010, he lost both his legs in the war in Afghanistan. Budhamagar became the first person to trek to Everest Base Camp with the help of artificial legs, losing both legs below the knee. Budhamagar has climbed Montblanc (4,810 m), Chulu Far East Peak (6,059 m), Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), and Mera Peak (6,476 m).
He climbed Mera Peak in 2017 and became the first above-knee bilateral amputee to climb a mountain higher than 6,000 meters. He was born in the year 1979 in Mirul village of Rolpa district. Even before this, he has reached the base camp of Everest.
