Double amputee finally summits Everest
This is 69yo Xia Boyu, a Chinese climber who lost both legs to frostbite on Mount Everest 40 years ago. He’s just summitted with prosthetics ⛰ pic.twitter.com/yTAURJ2j8u
— Siobhan Heanue (@siobhanheanue) May 14, 2018
When your commitments are deeper nothing can stop you neither age nor disability, Proves the Chinese climber Xia Boyu, 69, Xia Boyu (69) summited Everest earlier today on his fifth attempt to reach the top of the 8,848-metre peak
Xia’s first attempt was in 1975 backed by the Chinese government but was thwarted by bad weather and He was stuck in the frigid low-oxygen environment near the top of Everest and suffered severe frostbite, losing both his feet.
Xia’s was never intended to give up his dream of standing at the top of the world he was looking for all the possibilities of making his dream come true. Last year Nepali Government passed a rule to ban blind and double amputated people from Everest summit, it was a big blow on Xias dream but The ruling was overturned by Nepal’s top court in March, which branded it as discriminatory towards people with disabilities.
Dawa Futi Sherpa of Imagine Trek and Expedition, who organised Xia’s Everest bid. said
“He reached the summit this morning, along with seven other members of his team,”
The only other double amputee to summit Everest is New Zealander Mark Inglis, who achieved the feat in 2006.
Xia said to AFP before the starting of his expedition
“Climbing Mount Everest is my dream. I have to realise it. It also represents a personal challenge, a challenge of fate last month before heading to the mountain.
And thus Xia joined the club of Mark Inglis, a double amputee from New Zealand to summit Everest in 2006.
Official data released by Nepal government Last year, 634 people made it to the top and seven died trying.
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