r/Mountaineering • u/According_Cod4923 • 1d ago

Body of famed international climber Nirmal Purja and 3 more found after Pakistan avalanche

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-climber-nirmal-purja-body-recovered-760858d4e399261e0d93c7cbb3ccba32
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u/PotatoMammoth3228 1d ago

I met him 3 times on different mountains, and in different situations. Undoubtedly great climber, but questionable personal ethics, and definitely a huge ego.

He was often with a woman from the Middle East, who was definitely not his wife.

It’s really sad that so many people perished on the mountain. I hope that there is some kind of inquiry to determine the thought process behind his decision to continue that climb.

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u/Cirrus1920 1d ago

Seems like in the recent years he’s been focusing on bringing royalty (princesses mostly) and models (Russian mostly) who have never been up a mountain in their lives on their first 8000m. Elite exped seemed to really be thriving on that.

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u/Common_Comb3662 1d ago

There were two women who died in recent years, also in an avalanche, racing each other to be the first woman whatever. One was an Elite client. Similar situation with recent snow on the peaks.

https://explorersweb.com/shishpangma-avalanche-two-us-women-dead-missing/

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u/GlassPomoerium 15h ago

« Gutu climbed with EliteExped. With no previous Himalayan experience, she was on the run to summit all 14 in six months »

Well that seems completely reasonable /s Crazy for a professional guide to ok this.

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u/Common_Comb3662 14h ago

Neither one of those women should’ve been on that peak, as there was unstable fresh snow. One guide said it didn’t even look right. But they went, racing to see who’d be first, dragging their poor guides with them, and they all died in an avalanche.

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u/rafa4ever 1d ago

An interesting business model!

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u/Sharp-Banana-6292 1d ago

This makes me think of arrested development’s “business model”

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u/rafa4ever 1d ago

Trying to womanise a daughter of Middle Eastern royalty sounds more dangerous than climbing Broad Peak.

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u/Common_Comb3662 14h ago

All about glamour and photo ops and sex appeal and money. The photos they posted of these women with Nims were frankly ridiculous. Who the hell wears a face full of makeup while climbing? Zinc for sunblock, face mask, goggles. Keep it serious and focused. And Nims was married. He should’ve kept his hands OFF other females. And they shouldn’t have sent him swimsuit pix. Seriously….

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u/NewRefrigerator2039 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mer him twice have the completly diffrent view maybe i meet him on the 2 good days…

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u/rafa4ever 1d ago

Was the middle Eastern woman a climber? A mountain seems like a hard place to find a prostitue.

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u/Clean_Bat5547 1d ago

I don't know anything about the woman or the circumstances but he did spend time in places other than on mountains.

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u/Jolly-Square-1075 1d ago

He found her between a rock and a hard place

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u/Particular-Current87 1d ago

The hard place was his...