The last teams on Everest are back down. Among them is Nirmal Purja, who summited both Everest and Lhotse with his small Elite Exped team. He also brought down a video showing cut ropes. “People call ...

Nirmal Purja has made headlines again, this time not for a mountaineering achievement but for allegedly breaking the rules on Everest. Nepal’s Department of Tourism has started a probe after witnesses ...

You probably saw the photo of a traffic jam high on Mount Everest. The picture, shot on May 22 from below the summit ridge, quickly went viral, landing on the homepage of The New York Times, the ...

If you read recent headlines, anyone who climbs Mount Everest barely makes it up, leaves trash and is a rich, selfish narcissist who comes home to brag about how easy it was and how they did it better ...

Nirmal Purja Magar of Myagdi is attempting to set a record by climbing all 14 mountains above 8,000m in 7 months. To date, he summitted Annapurna I (23 April), Dhaulagiri (12 May) Kanchenjunga (16 May ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. This article is more than 4 years old. Nepal's climber Nirmal Purja ...

On October 29, Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja reached the summit of 26,335-foot Shishapangma in Tibet, finishing a season that saw him summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in just six 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 ...

Nirmal Purja smashed the speed record for summiting the world's 14 highest peaks, racing up all "8000ers" in just six months and six days Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images Early yesterday ...

The fastest previous ascent of all the mountains over 8,000 meters took nearly eight years, but Nirmal Purja did it in little more than six months. By Megan Specia A Nepali climber has reached the ...