Another record was set by Nirmal Purja by climbing a mountain higher than 8 thousand meters 44 times

This is his 44th ascent of 14 mountains above 8,000 meters around the world, including Everest, the world's highest peak. Nims Dai is the only climber in the world who has climbed mountains above 8,000 meters the most number of times, said climber and president of Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd. Mingma Sherpa to Kantipur on Tuesday.

Kamirita has climbed Mount Everest 28 times . Apart from Mount Everest, Kamirita has climbed Mount Choyu (the world's sixth highest mountain at 8,188 meters) on the border of Khumbu and Tibet eight times, the world's fourth highest mountain Lhotse (8,516 meters) once and the world's second highest Pakistan's Ketu (8,000 611 meters high) has reached the world's highest peak 38 times once.

After climbing Annapurna on Saturday and returning to Kathmandu on Monday, Nims Dai's journey is now at Sisapan, the 14th highest peak in the world in Tibet. Nims Dai holds more than three dozen records, including climbing the world's second highest mountain Ketu and the world's 14 highest peaks at the fastest speed in winter.

Nirmal Purja while climbing Annapurna. Photo courtesy: Nirmal Purja

Nims Dai, originally from Myagdi and currently living in the UK, is currently working in the field of mountaineering through a company called Elite Express in partnership with Nepalese Sherpa climbers. Now he is climbing mountains higher than 8000 meters without a guide. According to Mingma David Sherpa, director of his climbing company EliteExpede, Nims Dai is awaiting permission to climb Sisapangma . "After completing the climb of Sisapangma, Nims will have another new world record," Sherpa said, "Nims Dai Sisapang is preparing to climb without supplemental oxygen." After climbing this mountain, he will become the fastest climber to climb all 14 mountains higher than 8000 meters in the world without oxygen.'

Nims Dai said that if the climb of Sisapangma does not happen immediately, he will climb Makalu in eastern Nepal. "Let's see if the weather is favorable," he told Kantipur on Tuesday evening. After climbing that mountain, I will be the only climber to claim the record for the fastest ascent of 14 over 8,000 meters in the world, both with the aid of oxygen and without oxygen. ;. In the same year, for the first time, he started his climbing journey from the Lobuche mountain, which is 6,190 meters high. Nims Dai, who reached the world's highest peak 44 times in a short period of 12 years and set dozens of records, said that he has no plans to dedicate the rest of his life to mountain climbing and to take a break immediately.