The epitome of turning 'Impossible' to 'I AM POSSIBLE'.
"After losing both of my legs, my aim became to see what I could do physically. It opened my mind, and I attempted everything I could put my hands on," Magar said before setting off for the Everest base camp.
Two below-the-knee amputees have reached the peak in the past – New Zealander Mark Inglis in 2006 and China's Xia Boyu in 2018. He climbs wearing a specially designed suit and grips attached to shortened prosthetics, with silicon liners under his thighs to prevent frostbite. His expedition has echoes of the first-ever summit of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, news of which reached Britain on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
"I thought my life was over, I thought I would have to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair," he said.
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