Nirmal Purja is a Nepali-born mountaineer who is now a British citizen. He began his career as a mountain climber in 2012 after serving several years in the British Army.
Wiki/Biography
Nirmal “Nims” Purja was born on Monday, July 25, 1983 in Dhana, Magdi, Nepal (age 38; as of 2021). Later, his family moved to Chitwan, Kathmandu, Nepal. His zodiac sign is Leo. He attended Little Paradise School in Bharatpur, Nepal. In 2012, he studied for a Postgraduate Diploma in Safety and Risk Management at Loughborough University in the UK.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′8″
Hair color: black
Eye color: brown
family
He was born into a family of Magar descent.
Parents and siblings
His father was a soldier in the Gurkha Army and his mother was a farmer. Three of his brothers served in the Gurkha Army. He has a sister.
Nirmal Pooja’s parents
Nirmal Pooja and his mother
wife and children
In 2006, he married Suchi Purja, the daughter of a Gurkha soldier. She is a dental therapist and one of the directors of Eastleigh Hills Charity Limited, Hampshire, UK.
Nirma Pooja and Suchi Pooja
religion
Nirmal Purja grew up in a Hindu family.
Profession
as a soldier
In 2003, at the age of 18, he joined the Gurkha Army as a soldier. He said in an interview that joining the Gurkha Army was his childhood dream.
Nirmal Purja joins Gurkha Army
After six years in the Gurkha Army, he joined the British Special Boat Service (SBS) as a cold weather warfare specialist, becoming the first Gurkha to do so. In 2018, he resigned as a lance corporal from the SBS and joined the Special Air Service (SAS).
Nirmal Purja during his service with the British Special Boat Service (SBS)
as a climber
While serving in the army, he became interested in mountaineering. After leaving the special boat fleet in 2012, he trekked to Everest Base Camp for the first time and completed the trek to the 6,119-meter-high Norbuchi East Peak in Nepal. A year later, he made his first expedition to Mount Everest, leading a group of Gurkhas on the trek. On May 18, 2014, he completed the summit of Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters) in 15 days. Two years later, on May 13, 2016, he completed the summit of Mount Everest, and on May 15, 2017, he led 13 Gurkhas to the summit of Mount Everest in the Gurkha Expedition “G200E” Peak to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Gurkha’s service in the British Army. He climbed 14 peaks (each over 8,000 meters) in seven months, completing his first summit on April 23, 2019. His first six summits (Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) stage “Project Possible 14/7”, May 24, 2019 day.
In this project, he completed the last five summits in just 12 days. In July 2019, the second stage climbed Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat (8126m), Gasherbrum 1 (8080m), Gasherbrum 2 (8034m), K2 (8611m), and Bu Loat Peak (8047m). In the final phase, he climbed Cho Oyu (8188 m) and Manaslu (8163 m) in September 2019. On October 1, 2019, Nirmal and his team members climbed to the summit of Shishapangma (8027 m) with special permission from the Chinese government. On January 16, 2021, he climbed K2 (8,611 m) with nine other Nepali mountaineers, including Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Geljen Sherpa, Pem Chiri Sherpa, Dawa Temba Sherpa, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa (Mingma G ), Dawa Tenjin Sherpa, Kirupemba Sherpa and Sona Sherpa. Among all the team members, he was the only one who climbed the mountain without oxygen. He is one of the directors of The Mountain Charity Limited, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England.
Record)
- Fastest climb of fourteen Eight Thousand Mountains using supplemental oxygen in record time of six months and six days (2019)
- Fastest summit of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours (2019)
- First winter ascent of K2 (2019)
- Guinness World Records: First person to summit Everest (twice), Lhotse (once) and Makalu (once) in 17 days in a single season (2018)
- Climb the five fastest mountains of the world’s three highest mountains: Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga (2019)
- The world’s five highest mountains, Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu, are the fastest to reach the summit (2019)
- Fastest 8000ers: Gasherbrum 1, 2 and Broad Peak (2019)
- Fastest 8000m summit, consecutive summits of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours (breaking his previous record of 5 days) (2019)
- Guinness World Records: Fastest time from the summit of Mount Everest to the summit of Lhotse in 10 hours and 15 minutes (2019)
- Guinness World Records: Fastest consecutive summits of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu, taking 5 days, 3 hours and 35 minutes (2019)
Guinness World Records for Nirmal Purja
- Climbing an 8,000-meter mountain in spring (2020)
- Climbing 6 8,000-meter mountains in summer (2020)
Facts/Trivia
- His name is also Nimsdai.
- In an interview, he said of his journey:
When I was a child in Nepal, I went barefoot because my family had nothing. This is how I developed the resilience I needed to join the Gurkhas, one of the most fearless units in the British Army. Then, against all odds, I became the first Gurkha soldier to join the Special Boat Service in over 200 years of history, serving in some of the most dangerous war zones in the world, breaking down enemy gunmen and terrorist bomb makers. “
He continued,
But elite combat isn’t enough. I want more tests. That’s how my next project came about, something no one thought was possible – climbing all fourteen “Death Zone” mountains in seven months. The previous standard for conquering the world’s most dangerous peak was seven years, ten months and six days. I achieved this within six months and broke several world records in the process. I would have been faster if I hadn’t been asked to lead four dangerous high-altitude rescue missions. I knew leaving the mountain would mean death. Although I only started rock climbing a few years ago as a hobby, I found that I was able to adapt quickly to deadly conditions. I was rarely bothered by lung-burning temperatures or blustery winds, and fatigue seemed to slip away from me. Fear became irrelevant because I had faith. In the dead zone, I came back to life. “
- While in school, he participated in various sports such as taekwondo and basketball.
Nirmal Purja with teammates and PE teacher after winning in school sports competition
- In an interview, talking about Nirmal, the science teacher at his school said:
While other students aspired to become doctors and engineers, he took sports very seriously. “
- For his achievements in high-altitude mountaineering, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II on June 9, 2018.
- In May 2019, one of his photos (of overcrowding on Mount Everest) was published in the New York Times. In an interview, Nirmal said of the photo:
I need to correct people’s minds because I’m the only one who knows. If you compare the number of people who have climbed Mount Everest to the number of people who have climbed Mont Blanc, you’ll find that it’s only about 2%. But people don’t talk about how crowded Mont Blanc is. Furthermore, roughly the same number of people have climbed Everest every year since 2008. The situation in 2019 was that the team fixing the ropes was making slow progress and there were only two days of good weather throughout the entire climbing season. Normally, you have all of May to climb. Now remember, everyone on the mountain has sacrificed, worked hard, and in many cases spent a lot of money to achieve their dream of being on top of the mountain. So basically we all climbed to the top in one day. I was also stuck in traffic and only took this photo as evidence of how my own Everest/Lhotse world speed record attempt was affected. This photo ultimately sends the wrong message to the rest of the world.hope so [kind of overcrowding] That won’t happen again. “
Nirmal Purja’s photos of crowded Mount Everest
- He had to sell his house in England to finance the mountaineering expedition. In an interview, he said about this incident,
When I tell people about this project, they laugh. They said it was impossible. That’s why I named it “Project Possible”. I asked for help from everyone – from my friends and relatives. I also started a crowdfunding campaign. I think the most important thing is discovering your body, your limitations and what you can and can’t do,” he said. “That’s when you have a baseline and operate from there. For me, as I said, I hadn’t climbed a mountain since I was a kid, I’d only been in this field for four or five years at that time, and I was still discovering more about my body. That’s what I’m invested in. “
- He has a huge tattoo on his back which he named the Everence Tattoo. This tattoo symbolizes his climb to the 14 highest mountains in the world. He shared a post about the tattoo on Instagram on December 27, 2019, with the caption:
I’ve always wanted a tattoo but I never knew what I really wanted until I knew @everence.life. .Everence is a revolutionary technology that transforms a tattoo or a piece of jewelry into a special experience that stays with your loved one forever. .I added my entire family’s DNA to my Everence tattoo. I chose DNA because it is the most unique element of each of us. .This is a very simple process and all DNA is collected using a simple cheek swab kit. .For me, I got the @everence.life tattoo for two reasons. One is taking my family on the journey that I am on, a journey that no human being has ever been on. I want to take them places they will never go. The second and most important thing was this: I knew I had to get back to my family at all costs. I know I’m going to push myself more than anything else, but equally I don’t want to push the line between bravery and stupidity. Their Everence is always with me, a constant reminder that no matter what, I will return to my family. .This is a powerful product and I recommend you check out what these guys at @everence.life have done for yourself. “
Nirmal Pooja’s tattoos
- In 2020, he released his autobiography “Beyond the Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Mountains—My Life in the Death Zone”
Nirmal Purja’s book Beyond the Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Mountains – My Life in the Death Zone
- On November 29, 2021, Netflix released a documentary about his mountaineering expedition titled 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible.
14 Peak Nothing is Impossible Poster
- Nimal Purja drinks wine occasionally.
Nimal Purja in the restaurant
- In an interview, he shared his mountaineering experience and said:
Most importantly, I told you before, what mountains teach is humility. At the end of the day, you are no bigger than a mountain. The mountains stand tall, no matter what the weather, no matter the storm, no matter what happens. It’s so neutral. We’re human, we have emotions, we own everything. We have a lot to learn from the mountains. “
He added,
For me, when it comes to push and pull, I’m always honest with myself, whether I should go to the top or not. Can I really do this? Or is it just my ego? Or just because I want to prove it to the world, or just because I want to show it, or just because I wish I could? The answer is, if you have hope, if there’s that much stuff, if you’re not honest with yourself, you’re going to quit. Be honest with yourself, it’s the only reason you live. “
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