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Purja, Nimsdai.
Great Britain. Royal Marines. Special Boat Service -- Biography.
Mountaineers -- Nepal -- Biography.
Mountaineering -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
Mountaineering -- Karakoram Range.
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Beyond possible : on...
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Beyond possible : one man, 14 peaks, and the mountaineering achievement of a lifetime / Nims Purja.
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Purja, Nimsdai, author.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2022]
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Purja, Nimsdai.
Great Britain. Royal Marines. Special Boat Service -- Biography.
Mountaineers -- Nepal -- Biography.
Mountaineering -- Himalaya Mountains Region.
Mountaineering -- Karakoram Range.
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9781426222535 (hardcover) :
142622253X (hardcover) :
Description:
319 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Death or glory -- Hope is God -- Better to die than to be a coward -- The unrelenting pursuit of excellence -- Into the death zone -- Swimming to the moon -- The mission -- The highest stakes -- REspect is earned -- The normality of the extreme -- Rescue! -- Into the dark -- In times of chaos -- Summit fever -- The politics of a mountain -- Quitting's not in the blood -- Through the storm -- The savage mountain -- A mountain mind -- The people's project -- Epic -- Afterword -- Appendix one: Lessons from the death zone -- Appendix two: Fourteen mountains: the schedule -- Appendix three: The world records.
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"Purja is the first man ever to summit all 14 of the world's 8000 meter "death zone" peaks. He did so in six months and six days, smashing the previous record of seven years. In this spellbinding memoir, Purja reveals he man behind the climbs, explaining how his early life in Nepal and training as an elite soldier allowed him to achieve his dream."-- Publisher.
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