Arunima Sinha - first Indian amputee to scale Mt Everest - Tuesday May 21,2013

Arunima Sinha(25) a former national level volleyball player who had lost one of her legs after being thrown off a moving train, created history on Tuesday May 21,2013 by becoming the first Indian amputee to conquer Mount Everest.

Arunima Sinha reached the 8,848 metre-high summit of the world's highest peak at 10.55 am today, as a member of the Eco Everest Expedition from the Tata Group, an official of the Tourism Ministry of Nepal said.

Arunima Sinha successfully scaled the 6,622-metre-high Mount Chhamser Kangri of Ladakh  in 2012

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Arunima Sinha, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, was pushed out of the general compartment of Padmawati Express for resisting a chain-snatching attempt by some criminals, while travelling from Lucknow to Delhi on April 12, 2011. She was hit by a passing train and was seriously injured.
She was hospitalised with serious leg and pelvic injuries and in a bid to save her life, doctors had to amputate her left leg below the knee