- Who
- Tom Whittaker
- What
- / first
- Where
- Nepal ()
- When
The first person with an amputation to successfully climb the 8,848-m (29,029-ft) Mount Everest (aka Sagarmāthā or Chomolungma) was Tom Whittaker (UK), reaching the summit from the south side at about 7 a.m. local time on 27 May 1998. It was his third attempt to scale the world's highest mountain, after failed ascents in 1989 and 1995. Many consider Whittaker to be the first person with any physical disability to conquer Everest.
Whittaker's right foot had to be removed following a car accident in 1979.
The first double amputee to climb Everest was Mark Inglis (New Zealand), who lost both his legs beneath the knee to frostbite in 1982. He reached the summit from the north side on 15 May 2006.
The first female amputee to scale Everest was former national volleyball and football player Arunima Sinha (India), who lost a leg in 2011 as the result of a robbery attack. She reached the summit from the south side on 21 May 2013.
