{"id":52504,"date":"2023-02-10T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/veteran-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-plans-everest-summit-hari-budha-magar"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:07:07","slug":"veteran-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-plans-everest-summit-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52504","title":{"rendered":"Veteran who lost both legs in Afghanistan plans Everest summit bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha, hopes to be first ever double above-the-knee amputee to scale mountain<\/p>\n<p>A former Gurkha who lost both of his legs serving with the British army in Afghanistan hopes to become the first double above-the-knee (DAK) amputee to scale Everest this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haribudhamagar.com\/about\/\">Hari Budha Magar<\/a>, who was \u201csuicidal\u201d after being medically discharged from the Royal Gurkha Regiment in 2010, is working with an all-Nepali team to attempt to conquer the world\u2019s highest mountain in May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/veteran-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-plans-everest-summit-hari-budha-magar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha, hopes to be first ever double above-the-knee amputee to scale mountainA former Gurkha who lost both of his legs serving with the British army in Afghanistan hopes to become the first double above-the-knee (DAK) ampute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[937,1020,2845,938,608,241,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-army","category-disability","category-gurkhas","category-military","category-mount-everest","category-nepal","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52504\/revisions\/52505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}