Arunima Sinha : Women On Top Of The World


Early life and Carrer

Sinha was born in Ambedkar Nagar  near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Her father was an engineer 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 sister's husband thrived to take care of her family.

Sinha liked football and also was a national volleyball player. She wanted to join paramilitary forces. She got a call letter from CISF and faced her life-changing accident while traveling to Delhi in its response.

Train accident

Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player,] boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 12 April 2011, to take an examination to join the CISF. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by robbers wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Recounting the incident, she said:

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.

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.

She was offered compensation of ₹25,000 (US$350) by the Indian Sports Ministry. Following national outrage, the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken announced an additional Rs. ₹200,000 (US$2,800) compensation as medical relief, together with a recommendation for a job in the CISF. The Indian Railways also offered her a job.

On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences 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.]

An inquiry by the police into the incident threw her version of the accident into doubt. According to the police, she was either attempting suicide or met with an accident while crossing the railway tracks. Arunima claimed that the police were lying. Contrary to the police claims the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court ordered Indian Railways to pay a compensation of ₹500,000 (US$7,000) to Arunima Sinha.

Mount Everest ascent

Planning & training

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 elder brother Omprakash to climb Everest. She climbed Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg, which was arranged by raising funds with the help of a swami of Ramakrishna Mission, Vadodara.

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".

And after that Arunima join 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.

Sinha climbed Island Peak(6150 meters) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest

Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria (6,622 meters or 21,726 feet) in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of 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 Shankar Bhagawan, and Swami Vivekananda who has been an inspiration throughout my life.

After the climb

Uttar Pradesh then-incumbent chief minister Akhilesh Yadav honored Arunima sinha and handed over two cheque for an amount of Rs. 25 lakh in a function organized at her residence in Lucknow. This included a cheque of Rs. 20 lakh from the state government and a cheque of Rs. 5 lakh on behalf of the Samajwadi Party. The Chief minister said that Sinha had created history, due to her hard work and determination, by climbing Mount Everest. She was congratulated by the Indian Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on her achievement.

Arunima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and wants to open a free sports academy for the poor and differently abled people. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. 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 Tensing Norgay Highest Mountaineering Award in India same as Arjun Award

Antarctic Expedition

After climbing the Mount Everest Arunima Sinha's next goal was to climb all the seven highest peaks in all seven continents. She covered six peaks, i.e. in Asia, Europe, South America, Australia, Africa and North America by 2014. She summited Mount Elburs of Russia (Europe) Elevation 5,642 m (18,510 foot), Prominence 4,741 m (15,554 foot) and Kilimanjaro of Tanzania(Africa)Elevation 5,895 m (19,341 foot) and Prominence 5,885 m (19,308 foot). On 4 January 2019, she climbed the seventh peak on Antarctica and became world's first female amputee to climb Mount Vinson.

 

 

Achievements

1. World's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest(Nepal), Mount Kilimanjaro(Tanzania), Mount Elbrus(Russia),

 Mount Kosciusko (Australia), Mount Aconcagua(South America), Carstensz Pyramid(Indonesia) and Mount Vinson

2. Sports Woman and SEVEN Times Indian Volleyball National Player

3. Indian Mountaineer

4. Motivational speaker in INK Talks

 

Occupation :

1. Motivational speaker  

2. Indian Mountaineer

3. Seven Times Indiana Volleyball National Player 

 

  

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