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Rewriting mountaineering history

Nirmal Purja achieved global fame in 2019 by summiting all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-metre peaks in just one hundred and eighty-nine days. This feat shattered previous speed records by years. His ambitious project transformed how extreme high-altitude climbing is viewed, proving that human endurance could be pushed far beyond previous limits.

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