First female amputee to climb Everest

First female amputee to climb Everest
Who
Arunima Sinha
What
First
Where
Not Applicable
When
21 May 2013

The first female amputee to climb Everest (8,848 m; 29,029 ft) was single amputee Arunima Sinha (India), who reached the summit from the south side and with the aid of bottled oxygen on 21 May 2013 at 10:55 a.m.. Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player, lost her leg in 2011, when she was pushed off a moving train while resisting a robbery attempt.