Arunima Sinha is a well-known mountaineer especially for her brave feat of climbing the Mount Everest in 2013. She was the first woman amputee to have scaled the peak. But that’s not where she stopped. Arunima lost her leg in 2011, in a train accident. She had been resisting robbers who were trying to snatch her chain only to result in being thrown off the moving locomotive with dire results.
But that didn’t deter her. Two years after losing her leg she climbed the Mount Everest. On December 25th, 2015 she achieved another unimaginable victory by successfully climbing Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. This is the tallest peak in the southern and western hemisphere; it was peak number five for Arunima.
Her goal is to scale the tallest peak on each continent, which are better known as the Mission 7 Summits, for which she requires substantial funds (often a big roadblock for the climber). Arunima is from Ambedkar Nagar in eastern U.P and was a national level volleyball player when her fate took a 360-degree turn. She now runs a non-profit school named Shahid Chandrashekhar Azad Academy.Besides fulfilling her mountaineering goals, Arunima wants to make the academy a well-functioning and well-equipped institute.
Arunima’s story has managed to inspire us and a million other women who have lost faith to aspire and achieve. We congratulate her for her recent victory and wish her all the best for her future endeavours.
