"A journey from bottom to Top"

It is story of girl who can defeat her fear and make the history. yes, I am talking about Mountaineer "Arunima Sinha". Sinha was born in Ambedkar Nagar near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Her father was in the Indian Army and her mother was a supervisor in the health department. She had an elder sister and a younger brother. After her father died, her mother tried to take care of her family.

She wanted to join the paramilitary forces. She got a call letter from the CISF and faced her life-changing accident while travelling to Delhi. Robbers snatched her bag and pushed her out of the running train. She fell on the track and was unable to move due to her severe injuries. A train coming from the opposite side ran over her leg below the knee. The locals then took her to the hospital.

"I resisted and they pushed me out of the train. I could not move. I remember seeing a train coming towards me. I tried getting up. By then, the train had run over my leg. I don't remember anything after that"

"I shouted for help with all my might, but there was no one around who could help me. There were rats eating my injured leg as I counted 49 trains passing by me during the night," Arunima said

Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life. That on incident change her entire life.

On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the ALL India Institute of medical science for further treatment, spending four months at the institute. She was provided a prosthetic leg free of cost by a private Delhi-based Indian company.

While still being treated in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, she resolved to climb Mount Everest She was inspired by cricketer Yuvraj Singh (who had successfully battled cancer) and other television shows, "to do something" with her life. She excelled in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, and was encouraged by her mother to climb Everest. She climbed Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg.

She contacted Bachendri Pal the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011. When she met Pal and Arunima told her story to her, Bachendri Pal said to Arunima "My child You decided to climb Mount Everest in these situations with Prosthetic (Artificial) leg. You had climbed, achieved Mount Everest my child now just the date is remaining to the World to know".

"विकलांगता आपके शरीर मैं है..... चलेगा !

लेकिन विकलांगता आपकी सोच मैं नहीं होनी चाहिए !!"

~अरुणिमा सिन्हा

And after that Arunima join a basic mountaineering course from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering and TATA Steel Adventure (TSAF) in Uttarkashi (India) and she was encouraged or motivated by her elder brother OmPrakash to climb Mount Everest.

After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group sponsored Eco Everest Expedition, becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit. She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow. Recounting the incident, she said:

"It was my tribute to Shankara Bhagawan, and Swami Vivekananda who has been an inspiration throughout my life."

Arunima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and wants to open a free sports academy for poor and disabled people. The academy would be named Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Vikalang Khel Academy. She wrote the 2014 book Born Again on The Mountain.She was awarded Padma Shri the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015. She was Awarded Tenzing Norgay Highest Mountaineering Award in India same as Arjun Award.

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you reach.”

“No matter how great a loss, time always heals the pain, even though the scars remain."

~ Arunima Sinha