Mountaineer Nirmal Purja bags four GWR awards

Published On: March 22, 2022 02:45 PM NPT By: Republica  | @RepublicaNepal


KATHMANDU, March 22: The Guinness World Records has awarded four awards to Nepali mountaineer and adventurer Nirmal Purja or ‘Nims Dai’. Guinness welcomed Nims Dai in London for an interview and certificate presentation. Nims is also the star of the hit Netflix documentary '14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’.

Nims now holds the record for the fastest ascent of all mountains over 8,000 meters in 189 days and the fastest time to climb the top five 8,000ers and the fastest time to climb 8,000ers without bottled oxygen in 70 days and the fastest triple-header of the Higher 8,000ers in 5 days, three hours, and 35 minutes. 

Similarly, Mingma Gyabu "David" Sherpa, a member of Nims’ project possible team also became the youngest person to climb all 8,000m mountains, aged 30 years and 166 days. 


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