INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 4Celebrated climber Nirmal 'Nims' Purja today scaled Mt
Shishapangma becoming the fastest climber in the world to complete all 14 peaks above 8,000 m without using bottled oxygen.
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According to the base camp officials, Purja scaled Shishapangma at around 4:15pm becoming the fastest climber to complete all 14 peaks
without oxygen in just two and a half years.Without using oxygen in 2022, Nims climbed Mt Kanchenjunga on May 07, Mt Everest on May 27 and
In 2023, he also made it to the summit of Annapurna on 15 April and Mt Makalu on June 05 without using O2.
Last year in
October, he made it to the summit of Cho Oyu in Tibet
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