Nirmal Purja is a Nepal-born mountaineer who is now a British citizen. After serving the British Army for a few years, he started his career as a mountaineer in 2012.
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Wiki/Biography
Nirmal “Nims” Purja was born on Monday, 25 July 1983 (age 38 years; as in 2021) in Dana, Mayagdi, Nepal. Later, his family moved to Chitwan, Kathmandu, Nepal. His zodiac sign is Leo. He did his schooling from Small Heaven School, Bharatpur, Nepal. In 2012, he earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Security and Risk Management from Loughborough University, Loughborough, England.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 8″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: brown
Family
He was born in a family of Magar dynasty.
parents and siblings
His father served as a soldier in the Gorkha Army and his mother was a farmer. His three elder brothers are serving as soldiers in the Gorkha Army. He has a sister.
Nirmal Purja’s parents
Nirmal Purja with her mother
wife and children
In 2006, he married Suchi Purja, the daughter of a Gorkha soldier. She works as a dentist and is one of the directors of Mountain Philanthropy Ltd in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England.
Nirmal Purja and Suchi Purja
Religion
Nirmal Purja was brought up in a Hindu family.
livelihood
as a soldier
In 2003, at the age of 18, he joined the Gorkha Army as a soldier. In an interview, he told that it was his childhood dream to join the Gorkha Army.
Nirmal Purja on joining Gorkha Army
After serving in the Gurkha Army for six years, he joined the UK Special Boat Service (SBS) as a cold-weather warfare specialist and became the first Gurkha to do so. He resigned from the SBS as a Lance Corporal and joined the Special Air Services (SAS) unit in 2018.
Nirmal Purja while serving in the UK Special Boat Service (SBS).
as a climber
While he was serving in the army, he developed an interest in mountaineering. After leaving the Special Boat Service in 2012, he made his first trek to Everest Base Camp and completed his trek to 6119 meter high Lobuche East Peak, Nepal. A year later, he made his first expedition to Mount Everest and led a team of Gurkhas on the trek. On 18 May 2014, he completed Dhaulagiri peak (8,167 m) within 15 days. Two years later, on 13 May 2016, he completed the summit of Mount Everest and on 15 May 2017, in the Gurkha expedition “G200E”, he led 13 Gurkhas on Everest to commemorate 200 years of Gurkha service in the British Army. Did. He completed his 14 mountain summits (each over eight thousand metres) in seven months and his first mountain summit was completed on 23 April 2019. His first six summit (Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) stage “Project Potential 14/7” on 24 May 2019.
In the project he completed the last five summits in just 12 days. In July 2019, in the second phase, he climbed Nanga Parbat (8126 m), Gasherbrum I (8080 m), Gasherbrum II (8034 m), K2 (8611 m), and Broad Peak (8047 m) in Pakistan. In the final stage, he climbed Cho Oyu (8188 m) and Manaslu (8163 m) in September 2019. On 1 October 2019, Nirmal, along with his team members, climbed Shishapangma (8027 m) with special permission from the Chinese government. , On 16 January 2021, he climbed K2 (8,611 m) along with nine other Nepali climbers including Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenji Sherpa, Gyelzen Sherpa, Pem Chiri Sherpa, Dawa Temba Sherpa, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa (Mingma Ji), Dawa Tenzin Sherpa of. Kilu Pemba Sherpa, and Sona Sherpa. Among all the team members, he was the only member to climb the mountain without taking supplemental oxygen. He is one of the directors of Mountain Philanthropy Ltd in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England.
record
- Fastest climb of fourteen eight thousand mountains in record time of six months and six days with supplemental oxygen (2019)
- Fastest climb of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours (2019)
- First winter ascent of K2 (2019)
- Guinness World Record: First person to climb Mount Everest (twice), Lhotse (once) and Makalu (once) in one season in 17 days (2018)
- Climbing the five steepest summits of the world’s three tallest mountains, Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga (2019)
- Highest summit of the world’s five highest mountains, Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu (2019)
- Fastest lower eight-thousander, Gasherbrum 1, 2 and Broad Peak (2019)
- Fastest 8000ers, consecutive summits of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours (beating his previous record by 5 days) (2019)
- Guinness World Record: Fastest time from the summit of Everest to the summit of Lhotse 10 hours and 15 minutes (2019)
- Guinness World Record: Fastest consecutive climb of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in a total of 5 days, 3 hours and 35 minutes (2019)
Guinness World Record of Nirmal Purja
- Climbing 8000m mountains in spring (2020)
- Climbing six 8000m mountains in the summer season (2020)
Facts/General Knowledge
- He is also known by the name Nimsadai.
- Talking about his journey in an interview, he said,
As a child in Nepal, I lived barefoot because my family had nothing. This is how I developed the resilience needed to join the Gurkhas, one of the most fearless forces of the British Army. Then against all odds, I became the first Gurkha soldier in its more than 200-year history to join the Special Boat Service, where I served in some of the most dangerous battlefields in the world, opening doors to capture enemy gunmen and terrorist bomb makers. Knocked. ,
He continued,
But elite competition was not enough. I wanted more testing. This is where my next project came in, which no one had thought of – climbing all fourteen “death zone” mountains in seven months. The previous standard for conquering the world’s most dangerous peaks was seven years, ten months and six days. I achieved that feat in six months and broke several world records in the process. I would have been even faster had I not been called upon to lead four dangerous, high-altitude rescue missions. I knew that to leave the mountain was to die. Even though I had only started climbing a few years earlier as a hobby, I found that I was able to adapt quickly to deadly conditions. I was rarely affected by lung-burning temperatures or brutal winds and fatigue seemed to pass me by. Fear became irrelevant because I had faith. In the realm of death, I came alive.”
- When he was in school, he used to participate in various sports like kick-boxing and basketball.
Nirmal Purja with his teammates and sports teacher after winning the school sports competition.
- While talking about Nirmal during an interview, his school science teacher had said,
While other students aspired to become doctors and engineers, he took sports very seriously.
- He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 June 2018 for his achievements in high altitude mountaineering.
- In May 2019, one of the photographs he took (of overcrowding on Mount Everest) was published in the New York Times. Talking about the picture during an interview, Nirmal said,
I need to correct that perception, people’s perception, because only I know. If you compare the number of people who have climbed Everest to the number of people who have climbed Mount Blanc, it is only 2 percent. But people don’t talk about how crowded Mount Blanc is. Furthermore, the number of people climbing Everest per year has remained approximately the same since 2008. What happened in 2019 was that the rope-fixing teams were slow, and there were only two good weather days the entire season. Normally, you have all of May to climb. Now remember, everyone on the mountain had sacrificed, worked hard and in many cases spent a lot of money to achieve their dream of standing at the top. So they all went to the summit basically on the same day. I also got stuck in that traffic, and took the photo just to show how my own attempt at the world Everest/Lhotse speed record was affected. This picture sent a wrong message to the rest of the world. It is hoped that [kind of overcrowding] “Such a situation will not happen again.”
A photo of overcrowding on Mount Everest, taken by Nirmal Purja
- He had to sell his house in Britain to raise funds for the mountain expedition. Talking about this during an interview, he said,
When I told people about the project they laughed. He said that this is not possible. That’s why I named it Project Possible. I asked for help from everyone – my friends and relatives. I also ran a crowd funding campaign. Think the biggest thing is to discover your body, your limitations and what you can and can’t do,” he says. “That’s when you have a baseline and you work from there. My So, as I said, I haven’t climbed mountains since childhood, I was only in this field for four or five years at that time and I’m still discovering more things about my body. That’s what I’m investing in. Had been.”
- He has got a huge tattoo inked on his back which he named Everlasting Tattoo. This tattoo symbolizes his summiting the 14 highest mountains in the world. On December 27, 2019, he shared a post of the tattoo on his Instagram with the caption,
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Nirmal Purja’s tattoo
- In 2020, his autobiography is titled “Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks – My Life in the Death Zone”.
Nirmal Purja’s book- Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks- My Life in the Death Zone
- On 29 November 2021, a Netflix documentary on his mountain expeditions titled “14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible” was released.
14 Peaks Nothing Is Impossible Poster
- Nirmal Purja drinks alcohol occasionally.
Nirmal Purja in a restaurant
- In an interview he shared his experience as a mountaineer and said,
The biggest thing, which I told you before, what the mountain teaches is humility. At the end of the day you are no bigger than the mountain. The mountains stand straight, no matter what the weather, what the storm, no matter what. It is very neutral. We are humans, we have emotions, we have everything. We have a lot to learn from the mountains.”
He added,
For me, when there is an important moment, whether I should peak or not, I always stay true to myself. Can I really do this? Or is it just because of my ego? Or is it just because I want to prove to the world or just because I want to show it off or is it just because I hope I can? The answer is that if you’re hoping and if that’s all there is to it, and if you’re not honest with yourself, you’re out. Staying true to yourself is the only reason you can survive.”
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