Hari Budha Magar

Hari Budha Magar is a Nepalese mountaineer, born in 1979 in the foothills of the Himalayas in western Nepal, who joined the British Army through the Royal Gurkha Rifles at 19. He lost both legs above the knee to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2010, and afterwards took up sports from skiing and skydiving to rock climbing. In 2017 he became the first double above-knee amputee to summit a mountain above 6,000 metres, Mera Peak, and campaigned against the 2017 Nepalese ban on double amputee and solo climbers, which the Supreme Court of Nepal overturned in 2018. On 19 May 2023 he became the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest, and in January 2026 he completed the Seven Summits on Mount Vinson.