Write a paragraph about what do we learn from arunima Sinha
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On 20 July 1988, a girl named Sonu (Arunima Sinha) was born in Ambedkar Nagar, UP. Not much is known about her childhood or education but she is the first woman with an amputation to scale the Mount Everest.
Arunima Sinha was an erstwhile national volleyball and football athlete. In the middle of the scuffle, she was pushed out of the train. There was another train on a parallel track which crushed one of her legs below the knee.
She was admitted to the hospital and to save her life, the doctors had no option but to amputate her leg. She was under treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences when the survival story cricketer Yuvraj Singh who came back from the jaws of cancer, which fuelled her passion to climb Mount Everest.
She was discharged from the hospital with a prostetic leg which was funded by Ramakrishna Mission, Vadodara. She proved to be the best in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi.
Her brother Omprakash encouraged her to climb the Everest. For two years, she hardly trained in the mountains with Srijani Ganguly.
At one point of her climb, her guide refused to go ahead, to which she retored that she will make it alone.
After 52 days of climbing, she reached the peak of Mount Everest on 21 May 2013.
Upon her victory, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav handed her two cheques of Rupees 25 lakhs. The then sports minister Jitendra Singh congratulated her. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015. Another feather added to her cap was the Tenzin Norgay Highest Mountaineering Award.
Arunima Sinha has now dedicated herself towards social work. She runs a sports academy for training persons with economic hardships and disabilities. All the funds she has, she is donating to the noble cause. She authored a book Born again on the mountain which was launched in 2014. In the 27th edition (2016) of the Lima Book of Records, Arunima Sinha was fabled as one of the ‘People of the Year’.