What's the history behind Story of Arunima Sinha, the girl who conquered Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg.
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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 the right leg and multiple fractures in spinal cord. Her aim was to climb each of the continents' highest peaks and hoist the national flag of India.
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India's Arunima Sinha, who became the world's first female amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013, has added another impressive record to her resume.
The 30 year old has now become the first female amputee to climb Mount Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica.
Arunima, a former national level volleyball player turned mountaineer, took to Twitter and made the announcement of her incredible achievement
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Arunima on her big success.
“Excellent! Congratulations to @sinha_arunima for scaling new heights of success. She is the pride of India, who has distinguished herself through her hardwork and perseverance. Wishing her the very best for her future endeavours,” PM Modi wrote.Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Arunima on her big success.
Arunima, who is from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh lost one of her legs in a horrific incident, when she was thrown off the moving Padmawati Express train for resisting a chain-snatching attempt by hooligans in 2011.
It was after this incident, when she was recovering, that Arunima decided to become a mountaineer and scale the highest peaks in the world.
In 2011, Arunima was travelling from Lucknow to Delhi on the Padmawati Express to get her date of birth included on a certificate. According to her, some hoodlums jumped onto the train and began robbing passengers.
Arunima, who was trying to protect herself and the co-passengers, was pushed off the train and fell on a parallel railway track.
Unfortunately, there was another train passing on the parallel track and it ran over one of Arunima’s legs. As a result, the leg had to be amputated. Subsequently, the Indian Railways offered her a job.
She was then brought to the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, where she spent 4 months. A private company provided her a prosthetic leg.
Arunima displayed immense self-belief and determination and refused to give up. She got in touch with Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest in 1984 to train under her after making up her mind to be a mountaineer.
And since then she hasn't had to look back. Despite being an amputee, Arunima fueled her desire to conquer the highest peaks in the world with hard work and steady focus, turning into a hugely inspirational figure.
Apart from Everest, Arunima has also scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Kosciuszko in Australia, Aconcagua in Argentina and Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) in Indonesia before this.
In 2015 Arunima was conferred the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in India. In the same year she also received the Tenzing Norgay National adventure award