Those who have a knack for climbing must have heard of Nirmal Purja – the famous Nepalese mountaineer who has climbed almost all the highest mountain peaks on earth.
Nirmal, aka Nims, is a former British soldier who served in the defense regiments as a Gurkha – Nepalese nationals recruited for the British military.
He has multiple climbing records to his name. He was the first Gurkha to have conquered Mount Everest while serving in the British Military.
Nims also holds the records of fastest ascent and descent of multiple double and triple header mountains of 8000m category.
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In February this year, Nirmal set out to summit all 14 summits of ‘higher than 8000m’ category in just seven months. The previous record is over seven years. He called this mission “Project Possible 14/7.”
Since the start of his journey in March, Nims has conquered 11 of them.
In an Instagram video shared last week, Nirmal announced to have completed Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Mount Everest, and Nanga Parbat.
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The world-famous climber entered Pakistan in July and has so far mounted the topmost peaks including Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum-I and Gasherbrum II.
In the second phase of the project, he aims to climb K2 – the world’s second-highest peak after Everest – and Broad Peak.
And on Wednesday 24th of July, he along with his team of five stood on top of K2 at 7:50 am PKT. Just 2 days later on Friday, July 26, Purja summited Broad Peak (8,051m) at 8:50 am PKT. This was his 11th 8000m+ summit.
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If he continues with his current pace, Nims might end up climbing all 14 highest peaks of the world in less than seven months, which will be a world record.
