Hero vet Hari Budha Magar is first above-the-knee double amputee to climb Everest
He descended from the peak of the mountain on Tuesday and announced that he had “cried like a baby upon reaching the top.”
“I am not feeling that great,” Magar said of his physical condition even as his mental state remains in overdrive. “I am experiencing phantom-pain. It’s a condition that sometimes effects amputees. “There was one point, just below the Hillary Steps, nearing the South Summit [of Everest],” said Magar who was accompanied by nine. “The guys sent my oxygen and they said it was full. But it leaked. It was empty already. For about 20 minutes I was without oxygen at very high altitude. My hands tingled. I felt that I had no energy. I thought we would all die.”of the undertaking was underscored, on the way up, by seeing rescuers pulling bodies of two dead climbers who died mid-ascent.
But this did not stand with Magar. “I went to the Supreme Court to get it reversed,” he said. “By March 2018, we got it overturned” — for himself and for others.Credit Ryan Sosna Bowd, faced more daunting challenges than a law that he viewed as prejudicial. The journey to the top of Everest involves extraordinary obstacles for all who try it. Magar had to content with climbing on prosthetic limbs in freezing conditions.But after his legs got blown off in Afghanistan, life as a Gurkha ended, Everest was far from his mind and he feared that the life-altering accident came as the result of “having done something wrong in a previous life.”
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