Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey NATO, a Houdinck podcast, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 88 and we thank you for listening.

Today's episode is a special one because it consists entirely of a chat I had with the

mountaineer Nirmall Nims, Porga.

Nims is a former Gurkha regiment soldier and special forces operator in the British military

who has set out this year to climb the 14

highest mountains in the world in just seven months.

To put that in perspective, the current record for such a feat is over eight years.

He calls this ambitious goal, Braymont Project Possible, which obviously takes the first part of its name from his primary sponsor, Braymont Watch Company.

In fact, when I spoke to Nims a couple of weeks ago, he was in London for a short break after completing 11 of the 14 climbs, and he recorded his side of our call from Bremont's London boutique.

Even if you haven't heard of Nims, you've probably seen a photo he took.

After a particularly tragic climbing season on Everest, the news media turned its attention to the issue of overcrowding of guided climbing clients,

and a photo Nims took of the queue of climbers on the South Ridge became famous, appearing everywhere from the New York Times to CNN.

Nims and his small team are the first to put up ropes to the summit of K2 this year,

and along the way to several other peaks, he's led rescue efforts to aid stricken climbers,

even as he's been chasing his own record.

Nims is heading back to the Himalayas shortly after this episode airs with three mountains

left to climb, Cho-Oyu, Shishapangma, and Manaslu.

You can follow his progress by checking out his Instagram feed at

Nims Die or find him on YouTube. Now here's my interview with Nims Purge.

Enjoy the episode.

All right, hey Nim's, welcome to the Gray NATO. Great to have you on the show.

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