Hari Budha Magar

Hari Budha Magar is a former Royal Gurkha Rifles Corporal who lost both legs above the knee during an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2010. He has since become a record-breaking mountaineer, being the first double above-knee amputee to summit peaks over 6,000m and to complete the Seven Summits challenge, finishing on Mount Vinson in January 2026. He was born in 1979 in Rolpa District, Nepal, served the British Army for 15 years as a combat medic and sniper, and has successfully challenged discriminatory climbing restrictions in Nepal's Supreme Court.