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How Nirmal 'Nims' Purja climbed every 8,000-metre mountain in 189 days in 2019, shattering a record that had stood almost eight years — and how the…
By Dawa Sherpa · Aug 29, 2026
In 2019 a former Gurkha and UK Special Forces soldier from Myagdi in western Nepal set out to climb all fourteen of the world's 8,000-metre peaks inside a single year. Nirmal "Nims" Purja — Nimsdai — did it in six months and six days . The previous record had…
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Purja opened Project Possible on Annapurna I on 23 April 2019 and closed it on Shishapangma in Tibet on 29 October 2019. In between he climbed the eight peaks in Nepal, the five in Pakistan's Karakoram, and the two in Tibet, moving between mountains and…
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Records exist to be broken, and this one was — comprehensively. In 2023 the Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and Nepali guide Tenjen "Lama" Sherpa climbed all fourteen in just 92 days , finishing on K2 on 27 July 2023. Their partnership cut Purja's time by…
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Behind every one of these times is a Nepali team — the rope-fixers, the load-carriers, the guides who go up first and come down last. Purja said it himself, again and again: the record belonged to his team as much as to him. That is the part of the story we…
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These are the two eight-thousander approaches we put people on most: Everest Base Camp Trek — 14 days · the walk to 5,364 m beneath Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse Annapurna Base Camp Trek — 9 days · into the sanctuary below Annapurna I, where…
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