Beyond Possible: '14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible' Now On Netflix

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Apart from the impressive feats, the only redeeming sections of this book are those where he talks about his childhood or his family problems, thus making him appear human for some brief moments. You read one page after another about how he considers himself super athletic, too good for any challenge, “only having faith in himself”, and “never acknowledging vulnerability of emotions” but not once do you get a detailed account of how he managed psychological challenges and gained better understanding of the world when going through these experiences. The previous standard for conquering the world’s most dangerous peaks was seven years, ten months and six days.

At first I wasn't sure if the writing style was to my taste- it seemed a little overly self-focused (but why not? Even though I’d only started my climbing a few years earlier, as a hobby, I found I was able to adapt quickly to the deadly conditions.Purja pulled off the absolutely insane feat of climbing all fourteen 8000 meter peaks on this planet in just over six months.

So many things in this book are seemingly impossible feats: he saves lives and attempts to save others while out on the mountains doing his own challenges, he acclimatises more rapidly than other climbers and recovers amazingly quickly from work that floors others, he rescues a fellow climber in an operation that includes being helicoptered up to him, dangling off a rope underneath the helicopter, and he ends up directing climbers in a traffic jam on Everest when he’s supposed to be breaking a world record. Mittlerweile hat er noch einige andere 8000er-Vorhaben umgesetzt (erfolgreiche Winterbesteigung des K2), die immer für unmöglich gehalten wurden. But even after facing countless challenges, right at the peak of my achievements, my world fell apart when my mother was hospitalised. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone is the inside story of my incredible adventure. Purja is an elite climber and a highly trained soldier, so the way he handled the extreme conditions and life and death scenarios was not typical.Or the many people who died on Everest in 2019--the book covers Nims' famous photo, but not the aftermath of it (read The Third Pole if you're interested in that! Nims’s story is a remarkable achievement, and I like how it focused more on leadership, perseverance, and integrity than on the mountain climbing experience itself. Purja shows how leadership, integrity, and collaboration drive world’s greatest climbing feats, including the first-ever winter ascent of Pakistan’s K2? As a child growing up in Chitwan (the flatlands of Nepal), Purja knew he wanted to be a Gurkha and trained hard — running in the middle of the night and while carrying rocks — to achieve it.

Nepalese climber Purja debuts with a propulsive account of successfully climbing the “Earth’s fourteen Death Zone peaks” in record-breaking time.The distance between the book (reasonably well written) and the immense weight of the achievement is like comparing a reasonable peak in Alps with K2. Nepali climber Nims Purja is the first man ever to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000 meter “Death Zone” peaks in less than seven months. I had known of the Project possible team's accomplishments last year in October just like the rest of the world did, but knowing about how they got here to what they are today- the big shots in the mountaineering fraternity , this book takes you through the gripping ,bone chilling encounters , the high altitude rescue missions and events that certainly tested mankind's spirit like none another in what I would imagine to be some of the harshest weather conditions , with nature in its full fury trying to test the human spirit by constantly breaking it . You know the man is crazy when he summits 14 mountains of over 8000 meters in a time span of six months and six days.

Future adventurers who have read Olson's nonfiction title Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World's Most Dangerous Mountain or the fictional Peak (Smith) or Everest (Korman) series, Beyond Possible offers a fascinating look at what it takes to climb these imposing peaks right now. And I'm glad I read the book, too, because there was more details and information and drama than the movie explored.This book also reveals men's ambition, his self-centered view to success and, his egoistic approach to reaching his goals. During his years of service, he was given the chance to climb Mount Everest and he was bit by the climbing bug, to say the least. There is some information about his time in Nepal, and what life was like there, and I would have gladly had a few more chapters about that. The way Nims used his Special forces skills to navigate through some gruelling and gnarly conditions on some of the world's highest and revered mountains , is a testament to his undying spirit , and his dedication. I was rarely phased by the lung-burning temperatures or brutal winds and fatigue seemed to pass me by.