Lots of people have reached the top of the world ever since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first put their human steps on the summit of Mt. Everest. It was no less a giant step for mankind than the one that Neil Armstrong put on the moon in 1969. Now take all the 14 giant peaks standing tall above 8,000 meters and think about leaving marks on their summits in less than a year. Seems impossible, right!? Well, that’s what “Nimsdai’s Project Possible: 14 Peaks” is all about.
Even the most experienced climbers will toss off this idea as being ridiculous and unattainable. The first world record for climbing all 14 peaks is held by Reinhold Andreas Messner which took him 16 years to accomplish. To beat that record, you should be either a Yeti or crazy.
Finally, there is someone who was crazy enough to give up everything and put his life at stake to make it happen. No, he is neither Yeti nor crazy. All right, he may be a little crazy to come up with this idea. He is our own Nimsdai.
Who Is Nimsdai?
First, Nimsdai is from Nepal. His real name is Nirmal Purja, but Nimsdai is so catchy! So, let’s just call him that. Before he took up mountaineering as a passion and career, he was in the British Army. Later, he qualified as special forces in the British Navy, the first Gurkha to accomplish that feat. But it was not enough for him. He wanted to challenge himself and mankind.
In 2018, he walked away from the British military service to pursue a full-time mountaineering career, starting with Project Possible 14/7. The plan was to summit all 14 peaks above 8000 meters within seven months.
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