Part of the challenge of climbing the 8,000ers is that they take climbers into the so-called ‘death zone’.

On 15 May 2017, [24] Purja led the Gurkha Expedition "G200E", which summited Everest together with 13 Gurkhas to commemorate 200 years of Gurkha service in the British Army. [25] He has climbed Mount Everest six times: the third time 27 May 2017, [26] the fourth time 22 May 2019, [27] the fifth time 31 May 2021 [28] and the sixth time 15 May 2022. [29] Physical strength helps a lot. Really, a lot. This should be a 'hygiene' thing that you should not need to think of on the mountainI am an armchair adventurer - I love reading these stories about hardship, freezing cold temperatures, dangerous conditions and general misery while I'm wrapped up in a blanket, cozy warm and with a steaming cup of tea nearby (The Deadliest Catch was one of my favorite TV shows). I'm also so very impressed by the author's accomplishment to summit the world's 14 highest peaks - without supplemental oxygen! Non-climbers sometimes struggle to comprehend the nuances of what makes certain routes difficult. But they do understand a story. And that’s what Nims gave them. It’s neither alpinism nor speed climbing but something altogether new. He called it, unsurprisingly, “Nims style.” It’s less an unknown runner turning in a sub-two-hour marathon than somebody with a healthy appetite and determination realizing that they can wipe out the buffet at Bob’s Big Boy. It’s a spectacle. It’s a campaign. It’s because it’s there.

During their first acclimatization rotation, Nims proposed an alliance with Mingma G from Imagine Nepal. “I said, ‘Bro, why you want to compete?’ ” Nims recounted. “You got three guys, and I’m a team of six. Rather than having all this rivalry between the same Nepalese team, why don’t we work together?’ ”Similarly, the Nims-style, which requires one to push to the summit no matter what, sounds dangerous. While he admits reaching the summit is only half the task, he himself seems to be deluded by the summit fever in some cases. His decisions at Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I, and K2 are extremely dangerous. It is uncomfortable to see him fall into the traps of wrong decisions by forgetting the rules he himself set. Enter Project Possible: a seemingly unreachable goal to climb all fourteen "death zone" mountains in record time. The previous record was seven years, ten months and six days. The third and last phase started in September 2019. He summitted Cho Oyu (8188 m, Tibet, China) on 23 September and Manaslu (8163 m, Nepal) on 27 September. On 1 October 2019, Chinese authorities agreed to grant Purja and his team a special permit to scale Shishapangma (8027 m, Tibet, China) in the autumn season, at the request of the Nepali government. [37] Purja left Nepal for Tibet on 18 October 2019, leading a five-member expedition to climb the mountain [38] and completed Project Possible 14/7 with a successful summit on 29 October using supplemental oxygen. [39] [8] a b Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Nepali mountaineers make first K2 winter ascent | DW | 16 January 2021". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021 . Retrieved 16 January 2021.

This book is not just a blow by blow of his successes and failures on the mountains, but about his life's journey to that point, from being inspired at age 14 to finally reaching his goal at age 46. It's about despite becoming a veterinarian, he was strong enough to walk away because climbing was his true passion - instead of earning a good living working with animals, he spent his time building houses and scrounging for sponsors to pay for his trips to the Himalaya. 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. In the military, I have never left anyone behind," Purja says. "I wasn't going to do that on the mountains, so I gave the guy our oxygen."Nirmal Purja aclara que sí hizo cima en el Dhaulagiri… ahora va a por Everest, Lhotse y Makalu" (in Spanish). Desnivel.com. 20 May 2019. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019 . Retrieved 26 May 2019. 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. At that point, Nims knew that he’d have to be the one to try without oxygen. He told only Mingma David and Mingma Tenzi of his plan. They left base camp on January 13. By 2:30 a.m. on the night of January 15, they were at Camp Three ready to launch. Mingma Tenzi took the lead with Imagine Nepal’s Dawa Tenjin belaying him as he fixed pitch after pitch of rope above Camp Four. Nims and Mingma David stayed just behind the leaders, passing them rope as they needed it. Mingma Tenzi was a force, pounding snow stakes, wrenching ice screws, fastening length after length. They were 10 of the strongest mountaineers in history, all pulling toward their own goal, with no clients to slow them down. Interestingly, multiple people have pointed out that Nims isn’t actually a Sherpa himself, and is a British citizen. (Nepal doesn’t allow dual citizenship.) The New York Times even pointed this out. But it feels like an unfair attempt to rob Nims of his origin story because he left, had success in the UK, and found his way to the climbing community as a client rather than a porter. So I asked him point-blank: Does he consider himself a Sherpa?

Nirmal Purja's K2 winter summit proves ANYTHING is possible". Red Bull. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021 . Retrieved 29 January 2021. The little things count most on the big mountains. Same applies to life. Taking care of details can make the bigger goals a reality.

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In the death zone, I came alive. But even after facing countless challenges, right at the peak of my achievements, my world fell apart when my mother was hospitalized.