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Mt Everest conquered on one leg
Arunima Sinha becomes the first Indian amputee to scale the peak New Delhi (Agencies): Former national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who had...
Arunima Sinha becomes the first Indian amputee to scale the peak
New Delhi (Agencies): Former national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who had lost a leg after being thrown off a moving train, created history on Tuesday by becoming the first amputee in the country to scale Mount Everest. Sinha, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, had lost her leg after being pushed out of Padmavati Express for resisting a chain-snatching attempt, while she was on her way to Gautam Buddha Nagar in April, 2011. She was a member of the Eco Everest Expedition from the Tata Group. She climbed the world's highest peak at 10: 55 am on Tuesday. Sinha said the idea to Climb Mt Everest came to her mind only when she was going through a news report in the hospital bed about a group of people's successful expedition to Mt. Everest.
She said her elder brother, Omprakash Sinha, a former CRPF jawan, encouraged her when she disclosed her willingness to climb the world's highest peak, after getting an artificial limb.A "Following the discussion, I had a talk with Bachendri Madam [Bachendri Pal, the chief of Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF), the first woman to conquer the Mt Everest] over phone, who promised to train me," Sinha, who did her basic mountaineering course with A grade from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, said.
Sinha, 26, starts her expedition April 1 with Susen Mahto, a mountaineer from Jharkhand, with whom she successfully scaled the 6,622-metre Mount Chhamser Kangri in Ladakh in 2012. A Sinha said she had decided to get her life back when she was undergoing treatment at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) for four months,. "At 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," she said.
For Sinha, cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been an inspiration. A "He sent me a cheque for Rs 1 lakh and also spoke to me when I was recovering. I then got to know later he was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw him back in the Indian team I was inspired and said to myself that if he can get back to the team, I could do something with my life." A 61-year-old American woman Rhonda Graham, a left-leg amputee, climbed Mount Everest in October 2011.
