Mountaineer Determined to Return After Amputation

A Hungarian mountaineer who suffered a horrific accident in the High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia on January 2 that led to the amputation of one of his legs said he is determined to resume climbing by the end of the year.

He had his right leg amputated below the knee following the accident in which he and two other climbers became trapped as a result of winter snowstorm.

“My first goal is to take small steps, then walk, then to run and after that to climb,” he told the Hungarian newspaper Bors.