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In 2019, former Gurkha and British Special Forces soldier Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja stunned the mountaineering world by climbing all fourteen of the planet’s 8,000-meter peaks in just six months and six days—shattering a record that had stood for decades. What had taken legends like Reinhold Messner sixteen years, Purja compressed into a single, relentless season he called Project Possible.
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