Nirmal Purja: The Nepali Mountaineer Conquering the Himalayas
Nirmal Purja is a man of firsts. Having climbed all 14 of the world’s peaks above 8000m in one season, earlier this year his all-Nepali team reached the summit of K2 in a line, placing no climber ahead of the rest. The 37-year-old is leading the way for South Asian climbers, leaving the notion of Sherpas ‘assisting’ western climbers firmly in the past.