Former Staff Sgt. Charlie Linville, from Boise, Idaho, reached the 29,029-foot summit of the world’s tallest peak Thursday, the veterans’ group Heroes Project announced.
The 30-year-old lost his foot to a below-the-knee amputation in 2013 after an IED blast in Afghanistan. He was a member of a bomb disposal unit.
It was the father-of-two’s third attempt at reaching the summit; the first, in 2014, was canceled after an avalanche killed 16 Sherpas. His second, in 2015, was abandoned when Nepal was devastated by a huge earthquake.
Another combat veteran, Chad Jukes, 32, from Ridgeway, Colorado, was expected to attempt the summit this weekend.
More than 1,645 members of the U.S. military have lost a major limb since 2001, and thousands more have suffered a traumatic brain injury.
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