70-year-old Chinese double amputee climber scales Qomolangma
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KATHMANDU - Xia Boyu, 70, on Monday scaled the world's highest peak Qomolangma as the first Chinese double amputee climber from the Nepali side, government officials confirmed.
Till date, the only double amputee to summit Qomolangma is Mark Inglis from New Zealand, who had scaled the peak from China's Tibet side in 2006.
"The Chinese double amputee scaled the summit at 8:40 am local time today. He is the first double amputee to climb the peak from south face," Gyanendra Shrestha, an official at the Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, told Xinhua via telephone from the base camp.
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