Arunima Sinha

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Arunima Sinha (2014)

Arunima Sinha (* 1988 ) is an Indian volleyball player and mountaineer . In 2013, she became the first woman with an amputation to climb Mount Everest .

Life

Arunima Sinha grew up in Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh . She successfully played volleyball at the national level, but had to retire in 2011 after her leg was amputated as a result of a robbery. In this robbery, she was thrown from the train by the perpetrators when she resisted. The Indian state railway company initially refused to recognize Sinha's legal claims from the accident. After a seven-year legal battle, she was finally awarded a sum of 700,000  rupees , or around 9,000 euros. Arunima Sinha founded the charitable Arunima Foundation , which primarily supports people with disabilities . In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde .

Arunima Sinha trained to climb Everest with Bachendri Pal , who was the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. During the ascent in May 2013, there were several problems with her prosthetic leg and she also fell several times. After Mount Everest, Arunima Sinha also climbed Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, Aconcagua in South America, the Carstensz pyramid in Indonesia and Elbrus in Europe. It has thus climbed peaks on five continents.

In December 2014, Arunima Sinha published a book called Born again on the mountain ; Narendra Modi took over the presentation of the book.

Awards

For 2014, Arunima Sinha received the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award . In 2015 she was awarded the Padma Shri , a high Indian civil order. In 2016 she received the Yash Bharti Award from her home state Uttar Pradesh.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arunima Sinha - World's first female amputee to climb Mt. Everest | Motivational speaker. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Arunima Sinha created History! Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 1 euro corresponds to about 77 rupees according to oenb.at
  4. ↑ Compensation for Everest amputee . In: BBC News . January 29, 2018 ( bbc.com [accessed December 28, 2018]).
  5. ↑ 10 Women With Disabilities Whose Achievements In 2018 We Should Be Celebrating. Feminism in India, December 27, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Arunima Sinha, world's first woman amputee to scale Everest, now has a doctorate . In: The Economic Times . November 8, 2018 ( indiatimes.com [accessed December 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Invincible Arunima Sinha: How a woman amputee created history at the top of the world. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  8. ↑ PM Narendra Modi launched Born Again on the Mountain by Arunima Sinha. December 15, 2014, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  9. ^ National Sports and Adventure Awards. In: pib.nic.in. Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, August 29, 2015, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Durgesh Nandan Jha: Padma Shri for Everester Arunima Sinha. In: The Times of India online. January 27, 2015, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Anurag Kashyap, Arunima Sinha among others honored with the Yash Bharti award. In: The Economic Times online. March 21, 2016, accessed December 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sinha, Arunima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian climber
DATE OF BIRTH 1988