An elite mountaineer has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by at least two women, prompting calls to ban him from Mount Everest. Mr Purja has denied all allegations of wrongdoing. They ...

Did someone cut the fixed rope used by hundreds of climbers to ascend Mount Everest? That’s the claim made by Nirmal “Nims” Purja, an expedition leader who said his team members discovered the sliced ...

Purja beat a previous speed record by years. When Nims Purja decided to try to obliterate the speed record for climbing the world's tallest 14 mountains, he knew it wouldn't be enough just to do it.

Leading figures in the worlds of international mountaineering and Nepali politics are weighing in on celebrity climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja in the wake of bombshell allegations of sexual assault and ...

Arguably the most recognizable and decorated mountaineer in the world currently is Nims Purja, who owns several impressive ...

A climber who says he was scaling the same Tibetan peak as two American women and their two Nepalese guides who died when a pair of avalanches struck, described one of the women as "one of the best ...

When Nirmal (Nims) Purja neared the summit of K2 during the first ever winter ascent of the world’s second tallest peak in Pakistan, he waited for the rest of his all-Nepali team to catch up. Then, ...

Nepal’s Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja has performed an extraordinary and unprecedented feat of climbing all the world’s 14 th highest mountains within a seven month period by scaling his last peak, Mt ...

KATHMANDU, Jan. 24 -- Trailblazing mountaineer Nims Purja has set his sights on an ambitious new project - completing the 14 Peaks for the third time, making him the first person to ever do so. He ...

What does Purja have planned next after setting so many records already? He has recently announced what his next challenge will be, as he is going for a hat-trick. Nims will be launching a new ...