The 8027-Meter-high Shishapangma is wearing a modest name. The Tibetan expression of Shi sha sbang ma means “range above the grassy plain”. Similar to prosaic a message is read since Tuesday morning on the Website of “Project Possible” sounds: “On 29. October 2019 8.58 PM Purja reached Nirmal the summit of Shishapangma.” The mountain is considered to be one of the easier eight ausender, but the mountaineering achievement of the Nepali Purja cannot be overestimated. In just six months, and six days Nirmal has managed to “Nims” Purja all 14 eight-thousanders.

“We started with nothing.”

Nims was since the beginning of 2019 in the Himalayas and in the Karakorum on the way to the first man, all of the 14 highest peaks in the world in a season to climb. His photo of a traffic jam on Mount Everest was in may, world-famous, five months later, a historic brand came with the ascent of the Shishapangma. He managed the 14 eight-thousanders in 189 days. The previous record for the Climb the 14 peaks was seven years, ten months and six days, and of the South Korean climber Kim Chang-Ho was given. Reinhold Messner, the first man who had climbed all the 14 eight-thousanders, it took 16 years, from 1970 to 1986.

“Everyone has laughed about me and said: How is this going to go?”Nirmal “Nims” Purja

“It was grueling months. Hopefully I’ve proven that with determination, self-confidence and a positive attitude anything is possible,” said Purja, after he had finished a spectacular project: “We started with nothing. Look how far we have come.”

According to Reinhold Messner, have only managed just under 40 mountain climber with all 14 highest peaks in the world. Messner congratulated Purja on Tuesday to a “unique mountaineering performance”. Only a few experts had believed in a success of in the scene previously largely unknown 36-Year-old.

“Everyone has laughed at me and said: How is this possible?”, Purja said before his last ascent to the AFP news Agency. For his great goal, the former soldier of the British Nepalese Gurkha-elite troops sacrificed a lot. He entered early the military service, charged his house with a mortgage and started his adventure on may 23. April, with the ascent of Annapurna. In mid-may he reached on the same day, the summit of Mount Everest and the neighboring mount Lhotse, a day later, the Makalu.

Within a month, he had already climbed six eight-thousanders, with the help of bottled oxygen, which is frowned upon among purists. Has been criticized, among other things, that the Nims by helicopter from base camp, flew to base camp in order to stay on schedule.

The question of Why

At the end of his project, he was faced with major problems. China had blocked the Shishapangma expedition, only after the anxious Wait, he was allowed to take the rise with a special permit in attack. “Mission accomplished”, it is now called, on the Facebook page of “Project Possible”.

“International sponsors and attention, it’s mostly for foreign mountain climbers”Nirmal “Nims” Purja

the question of Why Remains. He wanted to inspire the next Generation of Nepalese climber to break his records, he said. Sherpas the back to form the ridge of the lucrative climbing industry of the country, but are mostly the same recognition as their foreign companion. “International sponsors and attention, it’s mostly for foreign climbers,” said the record-breaking climbers: “Nepal is home to the highest peaks in the world, but Nepalese people do not get these opportunities.”

Created: 30.10.2019, 11:46 PM