Documentary follows Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his team as they attempt to climb all 14 eight thousander peaks within a record time of under 7 months. The film premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival, and was released on Netflix on 29 November 2021. The actual climbing took 6 months and 6 days between April 2019 to October 2019. It follows Purja as he attempts Annapurna, Kanchenjunga and Dhaulagiri in a 22-hour push passing all camps. Two climber’s (later identified as Kuntal Karar and Biplab Baidya) die while trying to rescue two stricken Indian climbers from the death zone.
Despite giving them all their oxygen and waiting for 12 hours for help which never arrives, one dies in his arms and the other succumbs at camp 4. In the film, Purja also suffers HACE helping a third lost climber. The film traces the journey of Indian mountaineer Jagmohan Purja, who completed a 23-day push to climb the eight-thousanders in the Karakoram region of the Himalayas. In May, he took a photograph of a large queue that had formed at the Hillary Step on Everest, which went viral and was re-printed on the front of the New York Times. After summiting Nanga Parbat on 3 July, but taking a 100 m (300 ft) fall while descending, he climbs K2 on 24 July.
Two days later, Purja summits Broad Peak on 26 July, two days after laying down fixed ropes for other teams to summit the mountain. Documentary chronicles the journey of Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja as he attempts to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in 6 months and 6 days. He successfully summits Cho Oyu on 23 September, and Manaslu on 27 September, then spends a few weeks lobbying Nepali politicians to help him secure a permit from the Chinese to climb Shishapangma in Tibet. Purja calls his now dying mother from the summit “we did it” after completing Project Possible.
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