A former soldier from Nepal has climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months, smashing the previous record by over 7 years.
has climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months, smashing the previous record by over 7 years.reached the 8,027-metre-high summit of Mount Shishapangma, Tibet, on Tuesday morning local time along with three sherpa climbers.
The fastest time had been held by South Korean Kim Chang-ho in 2013, which stood at 7 years, 10 months and 6 days. Chang-ho had narrowly beaten -- by one month and 8 days -- the previous record of Jerzy Kukuczka from 1987.Eight of the mountains are in Nepal, with five in Pakistan and one in Tibet.
Purja also made headlines earlier this year when he took a photo in May of the long queue of climbers waiting in the"death zone" to reach the summit of Everest. The subsequent outcry led the Nepali government to draft new climbing rules.Nirmal "Nims" Purja/Bremont Project Possiblein 2016 for his mountaineering achievements.
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