14 8000m Peaks In 7 Months

Three years later, he was one of the lead instructors for the Gurkhas when they attempted to climb Everest for the first time . Since the first ascent of Annapurna by French mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal in 1950, some 191 climbers have summited successfully while 61 have died trying. There are quite a few things amazing about this film…

He is planning it, he is paying for it, he is the one who achieves it. The documentary ignores the fact that they are a team of experienced climbers. It’s him, a British citizen, and then 3-4 Sherpas who actually do seem to be fully Nepalese.

For most people, stopping a few metres short doesn’t make too much difference (something I’ve written about before) but the argument is that those claiming records have to be more precise. On the face of it, this was a straightforward story of someone smashing a record to smithereens and doing some good as they went along. But if you dig a little deeper, there is another side to it. Alongside the unqualified praise, Nirmal Purja’s achievement has attracted fierce criticism. We take a look at some of the most widely read stories on OutdoorJournal.com over the past 12 months. From exclusive reporting and travel writing to investigating age-old controversies.

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What his body is capable of is almost impossible for most people to compute — even he can’t provide a straight answer. After Everest, Nims summited Lhotse, stopped in Namche Bazaar to party for two days, then summited Makalu — all in five days. “If it wasn’t for the party, I would’ve done it in three,” he says. But on 29 October 2019, Nims finally conquered Tibet’s Shishapangma after a long battle with Chinese authorities to obtain a climbing permit. It was his 14th and final mountain, and it signalled the completion and success of Project Possible. He is a cold weather warfare specialist, and said he was the first Gurkha to climb Everest while serving in the British military.

But sadly, these resque moments are only present for 2 brief moments. So the docu mainly just bounces back and forth between boring walking, and a boring family. All acompanied with forced insparational backstories and narriation. All in all, I was looking at the clock multiple times. On 15 May 2017, Purja led the Gurkha Expedition “G200E”, which summited Everest together with 13 Gurkhas to commemorate 200 years of Gurkha service in the British Army. On 9 June 2018, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his outstanding work in high altitude mountaineering.

During the first phase, he hopes to climb Mount Everest, aiming to complete the first six peaks by June 1. ” Purja reported from the summit with his teammates Mingma David Sherpa, Galjen Sherpa and Gesman Tamang. Well if you go through some of his IG posts, maybe it’s over dramatized but conditions look absolutely horrendous on some of the peaks. It’s no Touching The Void, Nevertheless it was worth the watch if you’re interested in mountains for the sake of mountains.

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“I am overwhelmed and incredibly proud to have completed this final summit and achieved my goal of climbing the world’s 14 tallest mountains in record time,” Purja said in a statement. “It has been a gruelling but humbling six months, and I hope to have proven that anything is possible with some determination, self-belief and positivity.” The film premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival, and was released on Netflix on 29 November 2021. If you ask a common person in Nepal on what existing marks they feel proud of. Himalayas, Gurkha, & Sherpas are likely to be common answers in most people’s heart.

For example, this year on K2 it was looking like another one of those seasons when nobody would reach the summit. Teams had been there for weeks waiting for a suitable window. The season was winding down and many climbers had already gone home.

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They are just background Sherpas hired by this well-off British guy to bring him up all the mountains. And then he can claim he is like them too because he looks like them. He is a great climber himself for sure, but so are all the others and they did this project together. They obviously don’t have his money or European connections. Of course he claims this is a project to honor Sherpas who are often ignored.

The mountains to summit now were located in Pakistan. The sherpas of Nepal are the foundation to climbing in the Himalayas. He added the problem of them getting under appreciated and under recognized in the space.

Fast ascent of all 14 eight-thousanders in 6 months and 6 days (the previous record was 7 years and 310 days by South Korean climber Kim Chang-Ho, who still holds the record for achieving the feat without using supplementary oxygen). Nims went on to set the fastest time to climb all mountains over 8,000 m at 6 months 6 days. Nims began Bremont Project Possible when he reached the top of Annapurna on 23rd April this year and has accomplished this extreme feat of mountaineering with a rotating support team made up of exclusively Nepalese climbers. Throughout Project Possible, Nims has used bottled oxygen (though he says he only takes it from the high camps, around the 7500-metre mark), fixed lines, and Sherpas. Nims made it into the special forces mountaineering troop in 2014 and became the head of extreme cold weather warfare as an instructor.

The first person to climb the 14 eight-thousanders was Italian climber Reinhold Messner who took 16 years between 1970 and 1986 and completed the feat without the use of supplementary oxygen. By 2013, the feat had been achieved in 7 years and 310 days by South Korean climber Kim Chang, who also did not use supplementary oxygen. Purja decided to use oxygen above 7,500 metres for Project Possible based on prior experiences when not using oxygen on past eight-thousander climbs would have stopped him from saving the lives of stricken climbers . In 2021, when leading a larger all-Nepali team to complete the first winter ascent of K2, Purja did not use oxygen. This is the story of Nirmal (‘Nims”) Purja, the Nepali mountain climber and adventurer, who in a span of less than 7 months in 2019 climbed to the summits of all 14 mountains in the world that reach above 8000 meters altitude.

He served in the Special Boat Service as a cold-weather warfare specialist. Read more about my aim to provide an alternative voice in mountain writing. When I heard Nirmal is in mission for “Project Possible” straight away I got sense- Puraja Mission intention is NOT Pure and will not be Pure. Somehow,he will cut corners to accomplish his Mission.

Thanks for putting the icing on a grand cake and saving me days of writing. “MISSION ACHIEVED!” he announced from the summit of Shishapangma on Tuesday morning. Fastest triple-header of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 2 days and 30 minutes . Nimsdai mom was in severe health condition and had recently came safe from hospital. Suchi, his wife narrates how constant he was in the edge with emotions.