India's female amputee mountaineer Arunima Sinha and her colleagues met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday before leaving for Russia to climb Mount Elbrus, which is 8000 meters above the sea level.
Sinha, a national level volleyball player, is country's first woman amputee to scale Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest.
Singh blessed them to succeed in their efforts, adding she would be an inspiration for millions of specially-abled people.
Arunima Sinha has lost one leg but I think she would succeed, judging by her enthusiasm. It will also inspire disabled children in our country to succeed," said Singh in New Delhi.
Sinha said that disability is all in the mind.
"I think disability is in the mind. If a normal person is disabled in his mind, he is also a handicapped. I am a living example that a disable person can do anything in the world if he or she is strong in the mind," Sinha added.
The 26-year-old had lost a leg after being thrown out of a moving train by robbers. She has climbed peaks with a prosthetic leg.
