Nims Purja: Make your dreams a reality (re-release)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today we are returning to a very special episode from the beginning of 2021, when we were lucky enough to chat to mountaineer Nims Purja. Since then, Nims’ incredible documentary: 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible has been released on Netflix, following Nims as he takes on the quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in just seven months. To celebrate Nims’ success, we wanted to re-release this episode, sharing with you all of the insights, moments of inspiration and wisdom he imparted during our conversation.
Nims had a dream to become a Ghurka like his fathers and brothers before him. He made that dream a reality when he was 18. Six years later he became the first-ever Gurkha to join the UK Special Boat Service, regarded as the most elite unit in the military.
Nims set himself a challenge to be the fastest person to climb the world's 14 highest peaks over 8,000m. The previous record for this achievement was 8 years. Nims Purja did it in 6 months. A team of 10 Sherpas led by Nims has just smashed one of the last great remaining prizes in mountaineering – the ascent of K2 during the winter season.
Enjoy this extended re-release of Nim's episode - Dream big and always believe that anything's possible!
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| 0:00.0 | This is High Performance, I give to you for free every week. This is the chart-topping |
| 0:07.9 | podcast that turns the lived experience of the planet's highest performers into your |
| 0:12.3 | life lessons. So, allow the greatest leaders, thinkers, sport stars, entertainers and entrepreneurs |
| 0:18.0 | to be your teacher. And today we have a really special episode for you. We're going to turn |
| 0:22.6 | the clocks back a few months to when we were joined on this podcast by Nimms Perger. And |
| 0:27.8 | we knew at the time that Nimms was someone special. We knew the things he'd done were achieved |
| 0:32.5 | through incredible mental resilience and toughness and self-belief and positive, self-talk |
| 0:38.0 | and affirmations and passion and all the things that we talk about on this podcast all the time. |
| 0:44.8 | He is the true epitome of a man who lives a life of purpose and the podcast episode had amazing |
| 0:51.1 | reaction. Loads of people got in touch about it, but we decided that we would re-release the |
| 0:56.3 | episode because Nimms' documentary has been on Netflix for the past few weeks. It's one of the |
| 1:02.4 | most watched documentaries that Netflix has ever produced and finally more people than ever |
| 1:07.0 | are seeing how amazing Nimms Perger is. So, if you've heard of the documentary, if you've |
| 1:12.0 | now heard of Nimms but you haven't heard him on this podcast, this is what you can expect today. |
| 1:18.7 | Hi, as a person, I know I can do it and then that is the self-belief because that's one thing |
| 1:25.5 | no one can take away from you. It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter who you know, |
| 1:30.4 | there will be a person in your life. That could be your mentor as well, someone who you respect |
| 1:34.8 | truly. But then again, they don't know you. So, it's you who has got that self-belief and as long as |
| 1:40.6 | you believe from your chest and you put in 100% into it, you put 100% commitment and it's all there. |
| 1:49.1 | I was in the hostel. We're not allowed to leave the compound and all and I wanted to |
| 1:53.8 | join the GERCAS and it's a really tough selection. Every year, 32,000 applicants between |
| 2:01.5 | age 18 and half and 21 applies for the British GERCAS. It's a huge selection. And to be in one of |
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