14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021) on Netflix
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In 2019, Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja sets out to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders, the peaks above 8,000 meters, in under seven months. The standing record is seven years and 310 days.
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Plot summary
Nirmal Purja, a Nepali high altitude mountaineer, names his plan Project Possible 14/7: to stand on all fourteen eight-thousanders, the peaks above 8,000 meters, between early spring and late summer of 2019, inside seven months. The fastest completion on record took seven years and 310 days. Purja climbs with a rotating team of Nepalese mountaineers and uses supplementary oxygen above 7,500 meters. When he summits Annapurna I on 23 April 2019, he has secured only 15 percent of the money he needs, much of it from remortgaging his house in the United Kingdom.
Cast
- Suchi Purjaas Self - Wife of Nimsdai Purja
- James Barberas Self - Altitude Performance Specialist
- Galjen Sherpaas Self - High Altitude Mountaineer
- Mingma Sherpaas Self - High Altitude Mountaineer
- Lakpa Dendias Self - Sherpa
- Gesman Tamangas Self - High Altitude Mountaineer
- Garrett Madisonas Self - Friend & High Altitude Mountaineer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nirmal Purja had secured only 15 percent of the money he needed when he summited Annapurna I on 23 April 2019, most of it from remortgaging his own UK house. Later funding came through GoFundMe campaigns and corporate sponsorship, rebranding the project as Bremont Project Possible.
- Nirmal Purja's Project Possible climb of all 14 eight-thousanders actually took 6 months and 6 days, from April to October 2019. Before him the fastest was Kim Chang's 7 years and 310 days, and Reinhold Messner was the first to do it, taking 16 years without supplementary oxygen.
