Nimsdai Purja > Quotes

“The mountains were just about the best therapy a person could experience.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

“I knew more than anyone that nature didn’t care for reputation, age, gender, or background. It was equally indifferent to personality: the mountain couldn’t give a shit if the people exploring it were morally nasty or nice.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

“but that is the whole point: I have to push my limits to the max. Sitting tight, waiting it out and living in the past, has never been my thing. I want to be at the world’s highest point again, knowing it might slip out from underneath me at any moment. Because that is the only way to live”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Man, 14 Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime

“That action was designed to stop anyone from stacking it off the mountain.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

“In 2019, the Red Bull website claimed my goal was similar to ‘swimming to the moon’.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

“Your extremes are my normality.”
― Nimsdai Purja

“there was a worrying gurgle in my guts. Then another. My bowels were cramping and knotting, and I recognised the first onset of explosive diarrhoea. I prayed that the sensation was a one-off.”
― Nimsdai Purja, Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone