UP woman first Indian amputee to conquer Everest

Arunima Sinha,who lost her left leg when she was thrown off a moving train by hoodlums in 2011,became the first Indian amputee to conquer Mount Everest on Tuesday.

Arunima Sinha,who lost her left leg when she was thrown off a moving train by hoodlums in 2011,became the first Indian amputee to conquer Mount Everest on Tuesday. The 26-year-old hails from Ambedkar Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh.

Sinha reached the summit at 10.55 am,said Kathmandu-based Sanjay Kaju of Asian Tracking Private Limited. The agency was hired by Tata Steel Adventure Foundation to help Sinha and its team scale the peak,said Kaju.

Sinhas brother-in-law,Om Prakash,who belongs to Lucknow,said Sinha had been training for mountaineering at TSAF since October,2011. She was discharged from AIIMS after her treatment in July 2011. Kaju said Sinha and 21 others,including six Indians,came to Kathmandu on March 28 and began the journey to everest on March 31. She would be back in Kathmandu in a week and in Delhi on June 1,said Om Prakash.

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He said Sinha was encouraged and helped by Bachendri Pal,the first woman to conquer the peak. Being the chief of the TSAF,Pal guided Sinha to learn the skills and she scaled a height of 21,110 feet at Chamser Kangri in Ladakh in September,2012.

On April 11,2011,Sinha was found lying critically injured near railway tracks between Shahjahanpur and Bareilly railway stations. She had later told the police that she was allegedly pushed out of the general compartment of Delhi-bound Padmawati Express for resisting a chain-snatching attempt.