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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Athena Stavrou & John Bett

British Army veteran who lost both legs attempts dangerous record-breaking Everest climb

A British war veteran who lost both his legs in Afghanistan is climbing Mount Everest - and he's already at camp two.

Hari Budha Magar stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan in 2010 and now he's a double above-the-knee amputee.

Now he hopes to change perceptions about disability and wants to be the first double-leg amputee to scale the world's highest peak - which sits at 8,849m.

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