Russian climber with no legs scales Mt Everest on his arms alone

Amputated below the waist, Rustam reached the summit of Mt Everest on Wednesday morning.

Rustam Nabiev, a Russian ex-soldier who lost both legs when a military barracks collapsed in Russia in 2015, has stunned the world by scaling Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak, using only the strength of his arms, setting what has been described as a “new record in mountaineering history”.