{"id":4050,"date":"2013-05-22T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/indian-woman-is-first-female-amputee-to-climb-everest\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:25:26","slug":"indian-woman-is-first-female-amputee-to-climb-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/indian-woman-is-first-female-amputee-to-climb-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Woman Is First Female Amputee To Climb Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest, expedition organisers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Arunima Sinha, 26, from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, reached the peak on Tuesday morning after a slow climb from Everest Base Camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe left high camp at 6pm on Monday evening and arrived at the summit at 10:55 am (0510 GMT) on Tuesday,\u201d Ang Tshering Sherpa, founder of Asian Trekking, the company that organised the expedition, told AFP.<\/p>\n

Sinha\u2019s guides were concerned about her slow pace until the team reached an 8,750-metre (28,707 foot) junction that climbers pass through on their way to the top of the mountain, Sherpa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut once she got to that point, she gained energy and confidence and started moving really quickly,\u201d Sherpa said.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, the former national-level volleyball player was shoved from a moving train by thieves when she reportedly attempted to fight them off as they tried to steal her purse.<\/p>\n

A passing train crushed her left leg, forcing doctors to amputate below the knee to save her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time everyone was worried for me. I then realised I had to do something in my life so that people stop looking at me with pity,\u201d Sinha told Indian TV before leaving for the climb.<\/p>\n

The Tata Steel Adventure Foundation, which sponsored Sinha\u2019s climb, contacted Sherpa\u2019s Asian Trekking company in 2012 about providing training and guiding for the expedition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew her story, we knew she recovered well from the amputation because she\u2019s a very active athlete,\u201d Sherpa said, adding that the company trained her on Nepal\u2019s Island Peak during the 2012 spring climbing season.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of climbers have thronged the world\u2019s highest peak during a window of good weather. May is considered the best time for climbing in the Nepalese Himalayas because of mild weather and some 300 people have reached the 8,848-metre high Everest so far this year.<\/p>\n

The mountain has become a popular symbolic pilgrimage site for record-setting, awareness-raising, and pledge drives for charities, which have increased crowds on the peak.<\/p>\n

Tom Whittaker, a British mountaineer, became the first person with a disability to summit the peak in 1998 after a car crash almost two decades earlier had forced him to have his foot amputated.<\/p>\n

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