Posted on 05/15/2006 1:33:57 PM PDT by Uddercha0s
Kiwi mountaineer Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mount Everest last night to become the first double-amputee to conquer the world's highest peak.
His wife, Anne Inglis, sent a text message to The Press and Inglis' supporters late last evening which said: "Mark definitely made it, back at Camp 4. They are in high spirits. Anne."
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"If you've got a dream, don't let anything stop you from doing it."
At this point, the only way to top this accomplishemnet is to lop off an arm, and try again.
That's quite enough for me. Slogging the last couple miles from the ultra-disgusting Lobuche up to Kala Patthar can be pretty exhausting, especially since folks are still acclimatizing to ever-higher altitudes. You make the same step-step-rest pace going up KP that you might above the Khumbu Icefall (two people expired on the slightly higher Cho La Pass one year I was there).
Anyway, going up Everest as an amputee is a huge accomplishment. Congrats to Mark.
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