For ordinary people, a single 8,000er is a major endeavour that can take months to complete. So when the ex-Gurkha soldier declared that he would summit all 14 of these mountains in seven months, almost everyone thought he was crazy. a b c d e "Nirmal Purja". RedBull. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021 . Retrieved 28 January 2021. He achieved this trailblazing feat in 1986 without using any supplementary oxygen. To date, only 19 others have done the same. Reinhold is widely considered the greatest climber of all time. The little things count most on the big mountains. Same applies to life. Taking care of details can make the bigger goals a reality. He also tells us about his ability to compartmentalise, which must have helped him during tough moments on the climbs - and there were several.

Review: '14 Peaks' Documentary About the Remarkable Nimsdai Purja". FirstShowing. 29 November 2021. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021 . Retrieved 4 December 2021. Primeras cimas de la temporada en el Annapurna, Nirmal Purja tacha el primer 8.000" (in Spanish). Desnivel.com. 24 April 2019. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019 . Retrieved 26 May 2019. Then the three returned to base camp to recuperate, which on Planet Nims means only one thing. “After the plan, we make party,” said Mingma Tenzi. “All-night party.” a b Routen, Ash (15 May 2019). "Two Dead on Kangchenjunga". explorersweb.com . Retrieved 16 December 2021.Ich denke, es reicht vollkommen aus, die Dokumentation zu schauen. Für mich ist Nims' Buch einfach eine großartige Ergänzung gewesen und ich habe seine Stationen noch einmal ohne Bewegtbild dazu nachverfolgt. Für meine aktuelle Berg-Begeisterung in Buch- und Filmform hat das jedenfalls sehr viel getan. Rajan Pokhrel (7 July 2019). "Nirmal 'Nims' Purja scales Nanga Parbat to complete his seventh 8000er". The Himalayan Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 . Retrieved 28 July 2019. In the 2023 spring season, in the Khumbu region around Everest the local government temporarily restricted air service to Everest base camp to support traditional transportation by yaks and porters. Remley, Hilary (3 November 2021). " '14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible' Trailer Reveals a Man's Pursuit to Climb Every Mountain". Collider . Retrieved 15 November 2021.

The film has already hit Netflix’s top ten in its first week of streaming, suggesting that its thoughtful exploration of ambitious themes has hit home even with viewers who aren’t hardcore climbing enthusiasts. He made his first major Himalayan climb in 2012, reaching the summit of Lobuche East with no previous experience as a mountaineer. On 18 May 2014, he made his first ascent of an eight-thousander by summiting Dhaulagiri (8,167 metres) during a return trip of only 15 days. [24] On 13 May 2016, Purja summited Mount Everest, his second eight-thousander. [24] In one scene an avalanche sends him sprawling 100 metres down. In another, a man the team find stranded dies in Purja's arms. Some climbers criticized Nirmal, but I didn’t understand why,” says Messner in 14 Peaks. “He was doing it in this way, otherwise it’s not possible in such a short time.”

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The climbing community of Nepal have always been the pioneers of 8,000ers, but they never got the respect they deserve. I want to represent the Nepalese climbing community.” – Nims Purja The book is more about inspiring readers to summit their personal mountains than it is about the mountains themselves. This is because the details of some mountains have been entirely left out. The adventures to Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Shishapangma have been left out. In a book focusing about the record-breaking feats, the exclusion of details of some of these mountains made me quite sad. Kristin flew only to basecamp. Flying equipment to higher camps is being done for many expeditions. This is to ensure safety of sherpas,” the team explained.

This section's factual accuracy is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on Talk:Nirmal Purja. Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced. ( September 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) It hardly spoils 14 Peaks to reveal that, despite his rarified perch in the mountaineering world, even Nims gets used. “I would be at the front with my team setting fixed lines, carrying probably 30-35 kg, trailblazing around in waist-deep snow at the death zone, and some either European or western climber with nothing to carry would just, like, follow behind,” Nims says. “And at the end, they wouldn’t even say thank you. They wouldn’t even speak openly in their social media about it. And I think if people could do that to me, imagine what they could do to someone older or uneducated?” Suddenly, Fischer was staring at her phone with a hand over her mouth. Somebody had just died on Lobuche, she said. He was one of Nims’s Elite Exped clients, maybe one she’d met. A few seconds later Nims texted her. “Can you not tell people before it comes from official plz,” he asked. I was initially planning to read this book in a week.To my surprise I read it in one day. It was hard to put it down while reading about such a mammoth effort conducted by Nims and his entire team of Sherpas. Respect is earned , and I couldn't agree more.Nims started out humble. The humility wore off. Like the punch line to that joke about how you know there’s a Navy SEAL in the room: He tells you of his deeds, his world records, his daring rescues. He has compared himself to Muhammad Ali, Usain Bolt, Neil Armstrong, and Robin Hood, and speaks slogan-ese with a fluency that could reanimate Ron Popeil. Achieve your new possible! Always a little higher! Giving up is not in the blood! These and other phrases are printed on everything from coffee cups to the mission patches Nims velcros to the one-piece down summit suits worn by his mountaineer clients.

Among the businesses Nims is starting is a school for skydiving, skills honed in his 10 years as a special forces operator. But about a month after the fire, on October 14, while training with professional skydiver Dean Waldo in Spain, the two became entangled during a training exercise. Waldo was above and behind Nims, and punched through Nims’s parachute, becoming trapped in the fabric about 3,500 feet up. Nims cut away his primary chute and landed safely with his reserve, but Waldo cratered and died. All of this occurred only two weeks before our meeting. a b Raju Silwal (19 May 2022). "Nirmal Purja sets another record". nepalnews.com . Retrieved 30 June 2022.a b c Potter, Stephen (25 November 2021). " "I Wanted to Completely Change the Dynamic on 8,000-meter Peaks": A Q&A With Nims Purja". Climbing . Retrieved 16 December 2021. a b c d e f g h i j Peeling, Oliver (30 October 2019). "Nirmal Purja just climbed 14 mountains in six months and stunned the world". RedBull . Retrieved 16 December 2021. Those 'politics' included getting permission for the climbs - deep into the mission, China still hadn't approved his request to attempt Shishapangma. For those who enjoyed "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer you'll like this as well. He has a chapter on the 1996 Everest disaster and gives you another perspective on what went wrong.