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“He reached the top of Sagarmatha at around 3 PM [Nepali time] on Friday. After successfully summiting the peak, he has now descended to the base camp, and will return to Kathmandu tomorrow ,” Him Bista told AFP, using the Nepali name for Everest.
Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar poses during an interview with AFP in Kathmandu. Magar scaled Mount Everest on May 19, his public relation team said, becoming the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb the world’s highest peak ay 8,849-meter . AFP Magar was fitted with prosthetic legs and aside from kayaking around the Isle of Wight climbed several peaks including Morocco’s Mount Toubkal as well as Ben Nevis in Scotland and Mont Blanc in Europe.
Nepal’s top court quashed the law —which was not in place when Inglis climbed the 8,849-meter peak—in 2018 under pressure from Magar and others.
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