After losing both legs above the knee while serving with the Royal Gurkha Rifles, Hari Budha Magar used sports to recover from depression and alcohol struggles. He subsequently trained with veteran mountaineers, including former Gurkha instructor Krish Thapa, to fulfill his lifelong ambition of standing on the world's highest peak. Magar also actively campaigned to overturn a 2017 Nepalese law prohibiting double amputees from mountaineering, which the Supreme Court struck down in 2018. He reached the 8,849-metre summit in May 2023 and has since achieved the Seven Summits challenge.
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Hari Budha Magar became the first double above-the-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest a…: Hari Budha Magar became the first double above-the-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest and finish the Seven Summits challenge.
Legal advocacy by adaptive athletes successfully dismantled discriminatory climbing bans…: Legal advocacy by adaptive athletes successfully dismantled discriminatory climbing bans in Nepal to enable historic mountaineering expeditions.
Magar's international mountaineering achievements were formally recognized with an appoin…: Magar's international mountaineering achievements were formally recognized with an appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in June 2024.
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Hari Budha Magar is a Guinness World Records ICON. He was just 31 when a mine blast in Afghanistan changed the life of former Gurkha soldier Hari Budha Magar forever. In 2010, he was then with the British Army's Royal Gurkha Rifles. The Nepal-born soldier stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) and lost both his legs above the knee. But 13 years later, on May 19, 2023, he became the ‘first double above-the-knee amputee’ to climb Mount Everest. He is also the world's first double above-knee amputee to summit the Seven Summits challenge.
For Hari, reaching Everest was a childhood ambition, not something that he wanted to do after losing his legs.
Meet Hari MagarHari was born in a remote Nepal village in Rolpa district. He was always surrounded by mountains and like many children in the Himalayan country, he was fascinated by Everest.
He was only 19, when he left Nepal to join the British Army's Gurkha regiment. Becoming a Gurkha was already a significant achievement, which offered him an opportunity to build a better life for himself…
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