What Arunima Sinha, the First Female Amputee to Climb Everest, Did Next | WIRED 2015 | WIRED

Описание: In 2011 Arunima Sinha was thrown off the Padmavat Express train, bound for Delhi, by thieves. Lying helpless on the tracks, another train ran over her leg. Gripping two rocks to try and distract her from the pain, she counted 49 carriages passing over her. "I cannot explain this painful time," Sinha explained. "I decided in hospital bed that I wanted to take on something."
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That something was Mount Everest. Two years later, she became the first female amputee to reach the top of the world.

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