Double amputee to conquer Everest
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-05-16 13:52
![In this photo released by Mark Inglis, New Zealander Mark Inglis has a rest during on his climb up Mount Everest, Nepal, in April 2006. Inglis became the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on Monday, May 15, 2006. Inglis, 47, had both legs severed just below the knee after suffering frostbite when he was trapped by storms while climbing New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, in 1982. He reached the peak of the world's tallest mountain late Monday, phoning his wife Anne to say he'd made it and had returned to his party's base camp. [AP Photo]](xin_3405031614005351904210.jpg)
New Zealander Mark Inglis takes a break
on Mount Everest, Nepal, in April 2006. Inglis, 47, who lost both legs below
the knee to frostbite when climbing Mount Cook in New Zealand in 1982, became the
first double amputee to reach the Everest's summit on May 15. Inglis, 47,
had both legs severed below the knee after suffering frostbite when he was trapped
by storms while climbing New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, in 1982. He reached
the peak of the world's tallest mountain late Monday. [AP Photo]
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