Short Biography

Nirmal Purja, aka “Nims”, was born in the Dhaulagiri region of Nepal, at an altitude of 1600m, and grew up in Chitwan. He joined the legendary Brigade of Gurkhas in 2003 and then became a part of the Special Boat Service in 2009. Although always in the outdoors and mountains, his climbing career started in 2012 where he set out on a trek to Everest Base Camp. Once he reached base camp, instead of sticking to the schedule of returning back to Kathmandu, he made a bold choice to summit Lobuche East (6,100m) without any previous climbing experience. At the Lobuche village, he was fortunate enough to be taught to use crampons on grass by the late Sherpa legend, Dorje Khatri. Rest is history