who was the first female amputee to climb mount everest
Arunima Sinha Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor,[25] who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria (6,622 meters or 21,726 feet) in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest.[19] After a hard toil of 17 hours,[26] Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55Â am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored Eco Everest Expedition,[27] becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest.[26] She took 52 days to reach the summit.[28][29] She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow. Recounting the incident, she said: