The first international para athlete to conquer the world's highest mountain peak, Mt. Everest is:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Andrea Lanfri (Italy)
Andrea Lanfri is an Italian para-athlete who lost both legs and seven fingers to meningitis in 2015. Climbing on prosthetic legs, he reached the summit of Mount Everest on 13 May 2022, the first athlete with multiple amputations to do so.
Note: This ‘current affairs’ question is about a climb made in May 2022, four years before this May 2026 paper. Lanfri climbed to the top of the world in 2022; the news took four more years to climb into an NTA paper.