Gurkha veteran to climb Everest despite losing both legs in Afghanistan

ITV News' Rebecca Barry spoke to Hari Budha Magar, who was seriously wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan


Climbing the world's highest mountain is an undertaking only for the very toughest.

So you probably don't get much tougher than one Gurkha veteran who has set his sights on Everest's peak - despite losing both his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

ITV News' Rebecca Barry went to see him.


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