Chinese double amputee mountain climber Xia Boyu, pictured on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 4. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)The first time Xia Boyu tried to climb Mount Everest, he lost his feet. But none of that stopped Xia from trying to climb Mount Everest. “Climbing Mount Everest is my dream,” he said then. Sudarshan Gautam, a Nepal-born Canadian, became the first person without arms to climb Mount Everest in 2013.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2018 10:59 UTC