E32 - Nims Purja: Make your dreams a reality
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja MBE became the fastest person to climb all of the 14 worlds highest 8000 meter mountains in 2019. The previous record for this achievement was just under 8 years. Nims achieved this in just 6 months and 6 days. Aptly named Project Possible, Nims delivered on his promise and what many claimed to be ‘impossible’.
Previously, Nims served in The Gurkhas for 6 years before passing Special Forces selection and joining the SBS (Special Boat Service) where he served for a further 10 years.
Nim’s book ‘Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone’ is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to another episode of the High Performance Podcast. Before we get |
| 0:09.2 | going with today's episode, I just want to say a huge thank you to the amazing reaction |
| 0:14.0 | we had after our previous episode with the StereoFonics frontman Kelly Jones talking about |
| 0:19.1 | things that he simply has never discussed before and the impact with people was amazing. |
| 0:24.4 | We had a message on Apple podcasts from Gars W saying, I followed the StereoFonics since |
| 0:30.8 | 1999 that is the best interview with Kelly Jones I have ever heard and Gars and Steve |
| 0:37.2 | and Dan and Phil and Lucy and everyone else who left reviews and rated the podcast can |
| 0:42.8 | I just say a huge thanks. It might seem like a small thing for you but actually for us |
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| 1:03.6 | This is actually episode 28 would you believe and I was thinking about this the other day. |
| 1:07.4 | If on average our guests have spent 20 years learning the things they're sharing on the |
| 1:11.6 | podcast with you that means that so far we have shared 560 years worth of learning. How |
| 1:19.1 | ridiculous is that but we love doing it and we love the podcast. We also love the fact |
| 1:23.7 | that we're growing on YouTube as well just type in high performance podcast on YouTube |
| 1:28.0 | and you can watch the interviews there as well as listen to them here and this week you |
| 1:32.2 | will want to listen please trust me you might not have heard of this week's guest but the |
| 1:36.3 | things he has done are mind blowing. He's an adventurer who simply believes that the impossible |
| 1:42.7 | is possible and this is what you can hear from him today. |
| 1:47.5 | For everybody else out there who feel like that they have no privilege or underprivileged |
| 1:53.2 | or who feel like they don't have the opportunity. Oh man we create our own opportunity. You just |
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