Hari Budha Magar reached the peak despite being a double amputee since an explosion in Afghanistan

Rambahadur Limbu was awarded Britain’s highest military honour in 1966 for an act of gallantry

Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha, hopes to be first ever double above-the-knee amputee to scale mountain

Veterans say ‘arbitrary’ powers contained in proposals going before the Lords would have silenced their pensions campaign

Other lives: Canterbury businessman and Liberal Democrat city councillor, who later became a Gurkha campaigner

Soldier who became a leading figure in the glorious postwar years of Himalayan mountaineering

Parliamentary inquiry will look into concerns that remained after Gurkhas were granted right to settle in UK in 2009

Campaign by India's ethnic Gurkhas for separate political and administrative unit leads to total shutdown in Darjeeling hills

Actor's achievement is rewarded, as winners include Joanna Lumley and Malala Yousafzai

Other lives: Teacher and author who recounted with feeling his experience of being a late child of the Raj

Other lives: Former Gurkha officer and anthropologist who set up a development thinktank and training centre in Kathmandu

Four adult children of Nepalese fighters affected by policy which refuses indefinite leave to over-18s if not already settled in UK