Hari Budha Magar made history by becoming the first double amputee above the knee to scale Mount Everest.. He descended from the peak of the mountain on Tuesday and announced that he had “cried ...

Rajesh Magar started racing on a “Franken-bike” he built himself. Now he’s one of Asia’s top mountain bikers, poised to make a name on the world stage.

Hari Budha Magar, a Gurkha veteran in the British army who lost both legs in Afghanistan, is the first above-the-knee double amputee to summit the mountain.

Hari Budha Magar made history as the first double above-the-knee amputee to reach the top of the mountain Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...