EVEREST: Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition
First
Attempt, One Artificial Leg, Trained Enroute,
Summit Success
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Best Expeditions of 2004
Special recognition to Nawang Sherpa and Friendship Beyond Borders Expedition
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The
Bionic Mountaineer
Nawang
Sherpa of Nepal is the first person to climb Mount Everest using a prosthetic
leg. Since
childhood he dreamed of finding an opportunity to
some day climb Everest.
Ideal
weather on Summit Day, May 16th 2004
View of Makalu from the summit of Mount Everest
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Tom McMillan, the American mountaineer who shared his Everest opportunity to help Nawang achieve his dream.
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