Former British Gurkha soldier Hari Bahadur Budha Magar, who lost both legs above knee during a war in Afghanistan in 2010, scaled Mt Everest on Friday. The Public Relations Committee said that Magar stood atop the world’s highest peak yesterday. With this, he also set a world record by becoming the world's first double above-the-knee amputee to scale the 8,848.86-metre peak.

He climbed Everest with the help of artificial legs.

So far, two climbers with below-knee amputations have reached the summit of Everest. But Budha Magar is the first person who successfully scaled the world’s highest peak despite losing both legs above the knee. According to Public Relations Officer Him Bista, a team of magar stood atop the world’s tallest peak at 3 pm. Magar, who joined the British Army in 1999, was born in Mirul, Rolpa in 1979.