Nirmal Purja
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Nirmal Purja (25 July, 1983 – 30 July, 2026) was a Nepalese-British mountaineer. Before beginning a career in mountaineering, he served in the British Army with the Brigade of Gurkhas and later in the Special Boat Service (SBS), the special forces unit of the Royal Navy. Purja was notable for having climbed all 14 eight-thousands peaks in six months and six days with the aid of bottled oxygen betw…