Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone (HB) by Nimsdai Purja

Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone (HB) by Nimsdai PurjaAn SBS Gurkha soldiers account of how his tough Nepali upbringing and the lessons learned in his army life enabled his record breaking conquest of all 14 of the worlds 8,000m peaks in under 7 months. What happens when ambition meets limitless imagination? Enter Project Possible: a seemingly unreachable goal to climb all fourteen death zone mountains in record time. The previous record was seven years, ten months and six days. I did it in six months.

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