who was the first female amputee to climb mount everest
Arunima Sinha Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor,[25] who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria (6,622 meters or 21,726 feet) in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest.[19] After a hard toil of 17 hours,[26] Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55Â am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored Eco Everest Expedition,[27] becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest.[26] She took 52 days to reach the summit.[28][29] She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow. Recounting the incident, she said:
Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE OSN (20 July 1919 â€“ 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.