Scaling the world’s highest peaks with no fingers

MALAYSIANSKINI | Malaysia’s first disabled person to scale Mount Everest is on his way home from the world’s second-highest peak, also known as the deadliest mountain in the world – Mount K2 in Pakistan.

Proving his resilience with every climb, T Ravichandran has been scaling the world’s highest peaks with no fingers for the past 16 years but this year, in less than three months, he reached the world’s top two highest peaks, while creating a Malaysian record.

Ravichandran, who returned to Malaysia on May 22 after leading a successful Everest expedition, didn’t waste any time before his solo ascend that led him to become the first Malaysian to summit K2.

The 57-year-old mountaineer lost a considerable portion of all eight fingers during his Mount Everest maiden ascent in 2006 but, undeterred, he has since reached the peak of the world’s highest mountain, twice.

On July 24, when...