CLIMBER

Mark Inglis

New Zealand

Pendaki amputee ganda pertama di dunia yang mencapai puncak Everest (15 Mei 2006), mendaki dengan kaki prostesis serat karbon setelah kehilangan kedua kaki akibat radang beku di Aoraki/Mount Cook.

Mark Inglis (born 1 April 1959 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a mountaineer, winemaker, and motivational speaker who lost both legs below the knee to frostbite after being trapped in an ice cave on Aoraki/Mount Cook for 14 days in a blizzard in 1982. Despite his amputations he continued competing at the highest level, winning a silver medal in cycling at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. On 15 May 2006 he became the first double amputee to summit Mount Everest, climbing on carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, and is widely recognised as a global inspiration for adaptive athletes.

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