The team descends to camp for the night, only to learn there’s a climber from another team stranded up on the mountain. But they manage to summit in late April, kicking off the challenge. Purja and his men must climb in waist-deep snow and the danger of avalanches is ever present. “It gives you this sense of going to battle, and you’re going to fight something pretty mean.” Before he became a climber, Nirmal “Nims” Purja served in the British armed forces for 16 years, including the 6 years he spent as a Gurkha. “For every three climbers that make it to the summit, one dies trying,” says Don Bowie, a high-altitude climber who’s had five unsuccessful attempts in 13 years. Purja and his team of Nepalese sherpas start with Annapurna, a daunting peak. The first phase of his challenge, which he dubs “ Project Possible,” is tackling the six eight-thousanders in Nepal: Annapurna I, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu. One scene in the film has him visiting a London clinic that studies performance at high altitudes, and a clinician there says the mountain-climber possesses a unique physiology that allows him to access more oxygen at high altitudes, making for better performance both mentally and physically. I can climb with no sleep or rest at all,” says Purja, who now lives with his wife in Eastleigh, England, near where he was stationed in the military.
It doesn’t matter how extreme the challenge is, I’m not going to give up. “Physically, I believe I have a natural gift. “14 Peaks” follows Nepali climber Nims Purja, who set out to scale the highest peaks in the world in seven months. He didn’t climb his first mountain until 2012, but he discovered he had quite an aptitude for it. “You’re breathing about one-third of the amount of oxygen that you would at sea level.”īorn and raised at a relatively moderate altitude in Western Nepal, Purja spent 16 years in the British Armed Forces, initially part of the notoriously tough Brigade of Gurkhas and then in the elite Special Boat Service unit, which is the UK equivalent of the Navy SEALs. “Anything above 8,000 meters is in ‘the death zone,’ ” filmmaker and fellow mountaineer Jimmy Chin, known for the Oscar-winning climbing documentary “Free Solo,” says in the movie. Climbing a single eight-thousander is a huge endeavor that can take months, inflict a significant toll on the body and requires a good degree of luck in terms of weather and conditions. The previous record for such a feat was seven years. The doc chronicles his attempt to climb all 14 peaks in the world that are over 8,000 meters in seven months. “Don’t be afraid to dream big,” Nirmal “Nims” Purja says in the opening voiceover of the new Netflix documentary “ 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible,” out now. Purja, a 38-year-old mountaineer, didn’t dream big so much as he dreamed tall. Pastor plunges to his death while mountain climbing in Colorado Meet the 81-year-old climbing Scottish mountains for his sick wifeĭramatic footage shows rescue after storm left five climbers dead on Russia’s Mt Elbrus Climber scores $84K of jewels lost in Mont Blanc plane crash
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