Disabled woman braces harsh weather to reach Everest base camp


PETALING JAYA: She once thought everything was over after losing her left leg but Agatha Yu showed that she is made of sterner stuff and stood tall when she made it to the base camp of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

Yu, 32, is a former Penang state badminton player and an athlete in school but everything changed after a road accident robbed her of her left leg at the age of 16.

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