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Record-breaking mountaineer & advocate

Hari Budha Magar

Transform organisational resilience with Hari Budha Magar, world-record mountaineer and disability advocate. Hari equips teams with practical frameworks for overcoming barriers, fostering innovation under pressure, and building mental resilience. First double above-knee amputee to summit Everest and Guinness World Records-holder.

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Hari Budha Magar, Speaker | 7 Summits Mountaineer
Hari Budha Magar

Hari Budha Magar

Canterbury, United Kingdom

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Hari Budha Magar's biography

At a glance

  • First double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest
  • Former Royal Gurkha Rifles soldier and IED survivor
  • Disability rights campaigner and MBE recipient
Hari Budha Magar MBE is a Guinness World Records-holder who became the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest in May 2023. He campaigns to change global perceptions about disability and what people with disabilities can achieve. Born in a remote farming community in Nepal, Hari served for 15 years with the Royal Gurkha Rifles before losing both legs to an IED explosion while on patrol in Afghanistan in 2010. Following life-saving rehabilitation in the UK, he rebuilt his confidence through sport and mountaineering, later leading a successful legal challenge in Nepal’s Supreme Court to overturn a ban that prevented people with disabilities from climbing Everest. He has since climbed six of the Seven Summits and is on course to complete the final peak, Mount Vinson in Antarctica. To make these expeditions possible, Hari also helped design specialist prosthetics, heated sockets, and adaptive climbing equipment for extreme environments. Hari’s journey is a compelling study in resilience, innovation, and leadership under pressure. Speaking with humility and authority, he explores how mindset shapes performance in the face of uncertainty, risk, and adversity. Drawing on experiences of depression, recovery, military leadership, and extreme endurance, he demonstrates how barriers are often psychological before they are physical, and how sustainable progress is built through persistence, adaptability, and purpose. Audiences gain practical insight into building mental resilience, fostering innovation when no ready-made solutions exist, and shifting limiting beliefs within individuals and teams. His talks connect personal accountability with collective performance, showing how individual determination can drive lasting cultural and organisational change. Book Hari to inspire your audience with one of the most remarkable stories of resilience, innovation, and human potential in modern exploration.

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Why we recommend booking Hari

Hari Budha Magar’s remarkable journey from a double above-knee amputee to Everest summiteer will inspire your audience to rethink what’s possible and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. Book Hari now to empower your team with proven strategies for resilience, innovation, and breaking through barriers.

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Testimonials

Hari delivered an amazing keynote speech at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards. His incredible achievements speak for themselves but the way he tells his story with such humility, while promoting a message which resonates with every person, is what really creates a connection with the audience. The two standing ovations, and multiple applauses throughout his speech, were clearly testament to just how well his keynote was received. Hari is a tremendously inspirational individual!

Ben Rossi

Director, Disruptive Media Group

Hari has immense presence - strong, authentic, humble. To hear his story and know he climbed to the highest point on Earth as the first double above-knee amputee is truly inspiring. The applause lifted the roof of the Royal Geographical Society auditorium. And he left us in no doubt that he will succeed in climbing his next Everest to campaign for people with disabilities around the world.

Rebecca Stephens MBE

Trustee, Himalayan Trust

Thank you to Hari for his recent talk at Hastings Direct – the team were very inspired by Hari’s inspirational stories, delivered in such a way that was relevant to our organisation’s objectives, with lots of positive feedback and a real buzz around the room going on well into the evening. Hari has a very professional support team helping him to customise his presentations and talks and ensure that he is fully prepared and briefed to deliver on the day. We have already recommended Hari to speak at events with other business units internally.

Adam Malcolm

CEO, Hastings Financial Services

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What is Hari Budha Magar's speaking style like?
Hari Budha Magar structures his talks around a first-person narrative arc that moves from military service and injury through rehabilitation, legal campaigning, and summit achievement, using his own experience as the primary evidence base for principles around resilience and mindset.
What topics does Hari Budha Magar specialise in?
Hari Budha Magar MBE speaks on resilience and mindset under pressure, disability awareness and inclusion, and leadership and performance in adversity. He holds a Guinness World Record as the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest, achieved in May 2023 following a successful legal challenge he led in Nepal's Supreme Court to overturn a ban on disabled climbers.
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