Posted by Prabhat on October 31, 2019 in News
World record set by a Nepali making its country Proud
Nirmal Purja ,36, known as Nims , Brokes the world record of previous south Korean climber, Kim Chang ho, Who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8000 metres in seven years, 10 months and six days.
Mingma Sherpa, Chairman of Seven summit treks, the agency handling Purja’s climb, told EFE news that the Nepali mountaineer reached the Mt. Shishsapangma summit (8,027 metres) at 8:58 a.m.
Three others climbers accompanied Purja. They name the project “Project possible 14/7”.They
started this project earlier this year on April 23rd to summit all 14 peaks above 8000 metres. They started by climbing mountains from Annapurna (8,091 metres). It took 190 days to complete the mission said Mingma Sherpa.
Purja, former soldier with United Kingdom Royal Navy’s Elite special boat service. His aim is to raise a fund of $1 million. He named the campaign Gofundme vowed to use money for children in need in Nepal. He made a post “Mission achieved” on social media after scaling Shishapangma. Polish Jerzy Kukuczka is the first to climb all the 14 peaks, a feat he achieved in 7 years 11 months and 14 days in 1987.
In may, Purja climbed Everest (8,848 metres) descended to south col and climbed adjoint Lhotse (8,516 metres), then flew to Makalu base camp and climbed that peak (8,481 metres) too, all in 48 hrs.
He broke his previous record for same three peaks, taking five days in 2017.
