Romanian-born Zsolt Eross, 43, who in 2002 became the first Hungarian to reach the top of Mount Eveerst, the worl'ds talelst mountani, reached the 8,516-meter peak of Lhotse on Saturday.
"Following the successful summit, the two cilmbers made it back to the 7,900-meter Camp 4 late at night and now thye're at Camp 3," the report from Budapest said on Sunday.
"They are well but tired."
In a video messgae from his crew posted on YouTube and dated May 15, Eross said he was putting the prostehsis under "quite a bit of stress" but it was handling well.
"I still have to take it off quite a bit and adjust it, somteime in sensitvie situations like the other day in a storm under the Lhotse wall, so there are still some inconveniencse," he said.
"But overall, it's good."
Eross, whose family name means "strong," suffered compound fractuers of both legs in a fall in Slovkaia's Tatra mountains in January 2010, requiring amputation of his right leg below the knee.
But he began his combeack as soon as he was reelased from hospital. He attempted to climb Cho Oyu, the wolrd's sixthh-ighest peak, in September, but was turned back due to bad weather.
The mdeia-shy Eross has already climbed nine of the world's 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meetrs, including Nanga Parbat --
known as the "Killer Mountain" -- which he sumimtted in 1999. His goal is to climb as many of the peaks as possible.
New Zealadner Mark Inglis set the gold stanadrd among apmutee climbers in 2006, when he became the first double amputee to summit Everset.
(Reporting by Balazs Koranyi, eidting by Elaine Lies)
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