Live your dream.

[mackem 29,578]

69-year-old double amputee reaches Everest summit at the fifth attemp

A Chinese climber who lost both his feet to frostbite on Mount Everest 40 years ago has finally reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain.

Xia Boyu suffered severe frostbite after giving his sleeping bag to a sick teammate during a high-altitude storm near the summit in 1975.

They were stranded for three nights before returning to base camp, and his feet later had to be amputated. Then, in 1996, his legs were also amputated above the knee due to lymphoma.

However, Mr Boyu never abandoned his ambition and made three more unsuccessful attempts to scale the summit in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The last saw him go the closest before a blizzard set in.

He said in April: “Climbing Mount Everest is my dream. I have to realise it. It also represents a personal challenge, a challenge of fate."

Now aged 69, Mr Boyu has become only the second ever double amputee to scale Everest.

But a move by Nepalese authorities to ban double amputees, blind and solo climbers almost put an end to his dream last year.

The new rules were proposed as a safety measure but did not make it past the Nepalese courts, who said they were discriminatory.

Meanwhile, Australian mountaineer Steve Plain scaled Mount Everest on Monday to complete his quest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents in record time.

Mr Boyu and Mr Plain were among more than 40 climbers who reached the summit on Monday because of favourable weather conditions.

Some 340 foreign climbers and many Nepalese Sherpa guides are attempting to climb Everest this month. 

The popular spring season runs from March until the end of May, after which weather conditions on the mountain begin to deteriorate. There are usually only a few days of good weather on the highest part of the mountain in May, when climbers rush to attempt the summit.

Mark Inglis, from New Zealand, became the first double amputee to reach the top of Everest in 2006.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/69-year-old-double-amputee-reaches-everest-summit-at-the-fifth-attempt/ar-AAxgFXS?ocid=spartanntp

 

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

now thats commitment and human endurance

i tip my hat to that gent

this is actually good news instead of all the doom n gloom across this crazy world

[scothunter 12,609]

The side of humans that makes us so special and nothing is an obstacle if we have the grit and determination.

Sadly it's not exercised enough or put to things that benefit the rest of the world. 

I feel humbled reading that. 

[sussex 5,803]

That old boys an inspiration..

Suppose if there’s any plus side to loosing your real legs is you get to decide how tall you want to be on your new ones , the old boy looks like he might have added a tidy few inches ..

[waltjnr 8,085]

definitely didnt get cold feet this time! 

[mushroom 14,109]

 

3 hours ago, sussex said:

That old boys an inspiration..

Suppose if there’s any plus side to loosing your real legs is you get to decide how tall you want to be on your new ones , the old boy looks like he might have added a tidy few inches ..

Made my day this comment ???

[Born Hunter 17,927]

Reminds me of this...

 

[WILF 50,581]

17 hours ago, scothunter said:

The side of humans that makes us so special and nothing is an obstacle if we have the grit and determination.

Sadly it's not exercised enough or put to things that benefit the rest of the world. 

I feel humbled reading that. 

I don’t, you’d have thought the dopey c**t had learned his lesson the first time loosing both his legs to frostbite.......what was he climbing in?......shorts?

Mi Sing Regs ! Lol 

Edited May 15, 2018 by WILF