1) who was Arunima sinha?
2) What happened to her leg?
3) Did the accident affect her spirit ?
4) where the artificial leg was fitted to
Arunima Sinha?
5) give the fell form of Allms ?
6)What does story
of Arunima sinha
teach us ?
Answers
Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountain climber and sportswoman. She is a seven time Indian volleyball player, mountaineer and the World's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mount Elbrus (Russia), Mount Kosciusko (Australia), Mount Aconcagua (South America), Carstensz Pyramid (Indonesia) and Mount
She was pushed from a running train by some robbers in 2011 while she was resisting them. As a result, her left leg had to be amputated below the knee, she got rods in right leg and multiple fractures in spinal cord.[5]
Her aim was to climb each of the continents' highest peaks and hoist the national flag of India. She has already done seven peaks till 2014: Everest in Asia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Kosciuszko in Australia, Aconcagua in Argentina, and Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) in Indonesia.[6] She completed her final summit of Mount Vinson in Antarctica on 1 January 2019.[4][7]
In 2015, the Government of India honored her with the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award of India.