Five foreigners climbed to the top of Mount Everest on Sunday.
Kathmandu:
A double amputee ex-British Gurkha soldier has created history by scaling Mount Everest, an official said on Saturday.
Hari Budhmagar, 43, scaled the peak of 8848.86 meters on Friday late afternoon.
“Double amputee ex-serviceman Hari Budhmagar created history on Friday by becoming the first person to scale Mount Everest,” said a tourism department official. Budhmagar, who lost both his legs in the war in Afghanistan while fighting for the UK government as a soldier of the British Gurkhas, scaled Mount Everest with prosthetic legs in 2010.
He postponed his plans to scale Mount Everest in 2018 after the government introduced a mountaineering regulation that banned blind, double-amputee and solo climbers from climbing mountains including Everest in 2017.
A writ petition was filed against the ban and in response the Supreme Court issued an order in 2018 striking down the rule, paving the way for Buddhanagar to create history.
Five foreigners climbed to the top of Mount Everest on Sunday.
Nepal has issued a record 466 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials said.
Nepal is home to eight of the 10 highest peaks in the world.
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