Kathmandu, Oct. 29 -- Nepal's Nirmal 'Nims' Purja has performed an extraordinary and unprecedented feat of climbing all the world's 14th highest mountains within a seven month period by scaling his last peak, Mt Xixapangma in China on Tuesday. The only reason he could not complete the exploit earlier was because of visa delays, and rescuing stranded climbers along the way.
The former Gurkha Special Forces Commando in the British Navy set out on his quest in April 2019, and climbed all the world's peaks above 8,000m - including Mt Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Makalu in Nepal this spring before moving on to K2 in the Karakoram in Pakistan.
Mt Xixapangma (8.027m) was his last and 14th peak, but for that he ...