Trekker to set up sports academy for disabled athletes

A woman of iron clad will and honest determination, 26-year-old Arunima Sinha, the world's first female amputee to climb Mount Everest, now seeks to be a source of inspiration for disabled athletes.

Sinha has bought a plot of land 30kms from Lucknow where she is looking to establish an International Sports Academy where disabled and children from economically weak background will be provided with educational and sports facilities. She hopes to have three participants, including herself, from this school in the 2016 Paralympics.

After losing a leg during a train accident in 2011, she proved her mettle by scaling the world's highest peak in the world, and then set her sights on the seven summits of the world. Of these seven, she has already conquered Mt Everest from Asia, Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt Elbrus in Europe. Her next target is the Mt Kosciuszko of Australia.

In 2011, Sinha had been involved in a train accident in which she lost a leg.