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Biography on mount everest
Nawang Sherpa
Nepalese amputee who climbed Mount Everest
Nawang Sherpa (c. 1972 - 22 May 2024) became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004.
He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit.
Early Life
Born in Tapting, a village in the Himalayan Solukhumbu region of Nepal, Nawang developed a passion for mountains at an early age.
He dreamed of climbing Everest while training to become a high-altitude Sherpa mountain guide.
However, in 2000 after completing part of his training, he was involved in a traffic accident in Kathmandu, resulting in the amputation of his left leg.[1] In May 2001, he traveled to California with the help of friends, where he received a prosthetic leg donated by the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).[2] Arrivi