Nirmal Purja's First Ascent of Mount Everest in 2016

TLDR

• This is the only mountain under 8000 metres that Nirmal climbed on 25th August, 2022.
• He first summitted Mount Everest in 2016 and returned to the summit five more times.
• Nirmal Puja (43), was among the greatest mountaineers of the modern era.
• He was also the first man with his Nepalese team to climb K2, and that to, in winter conditions.
• While attempting Broad Peak, Pakistan’s 8,051 metres mountain – the world’s twelfth-highest mountain – he was caught in a devastating avalanche that claimed his life and those of his companions.