MOUNTAINEER

Nirmal Purja

1983 - Today

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Nirmal Purja (known as Nims or Nimsdai) (Nepali: निर्मल पुर्जा; born 25 July 1983) is a Nepal-born naturalised British mountaineer. Prior to taking on a career in mountaineering, he served in the British Army with the Brigade of Gurkhas followed by the Special Boat Service (SBS), the special forces unit of the Royal Navy. Purja is notable for having climbed all 14 eight-thousanders (peaks above 8,000 metres or 26,000 feet) in a time of six months and six days with the aid of bottled oxygen between April and October 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nirmal Purja has received more than 2,587,640 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Nirmal Purja is the 47th most popular mountaineer (down from 44th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Nepal (down from 37th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Nepalese Mountaineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Nirmal Purja ranks 47 out of 56. Before him are Apa Sherpa, Oh Eun-sun, Edurne Pasaban, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Joe Simpson, and Ang Rita. After him are Alison Hargreaves, Dean Potter, David Lama, Erik Weihenmayer, Arunima Sinha, and Jordan Romero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Nirmal Purja ranks 140. Before him are Sebastian Ingrosso, Kim Jae-wook, Dudu Cearense, Lee Hanee, Jung Yu-mi, and Jorge Valdivia. After him are Julia Fischer, Clint Dempsey, Sophia Di Martino, Marwan Kenzari, Danko Lazović, and Jun Matsumoto.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Nirmal Purja ranks 42 out of 59. Before him are Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah (1875), Surya Bahadur Thapa (1928), Lokendra Bahadur Chand (1940), Pratap Singh Shah (1751), Man Mohan Adhikari (1920), and Ang Rita (1948). After him are Kirti Nidhi Bista (1927), Baburam Bhattarai (1954), Madhav Kumar Nepal (1953), Sahana Pradhan (1927), Tulsi Giri (1926), and Khil Raj Regmi (1949).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Nepal

Among mountaineers born in Nepal, Nirmal Purja ranks 4. Before him are Tenzing Norgay (1914), Apa Sherpa (1960), and Ang Rita (1948). After him are Lhakpa Sherpa (1974).

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