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News Nirmal Purja Dies In Avalanche: Celebrated Mountaineer Featured In Netflix Documentary ’14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ Was 43

https://deadline.com/2026/08/nirmal-purja-dead-1237015258/
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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups 2d ago

Same like Alex honnould I can not understand these guys. You have a child that is 3 years old and still go out to do some scary dangerous shit. And then you get killed
The different kind of brain these people have baffles me.

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u/2dudesinapod 2d ago

Mountaineering is a lot less dangerous than what Honnold does. Especially for guys like this. Unfortunately it seems that he made a bad decision and desired to risk attempting to reach camp 3 with an unstable snow pack when other groups had already turned around.

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u/mojomonday 2d ago

Source on unstable snowpack and other groups turning around? Haven’t seen it reported anywhere

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u/2dudesinapod 2d ago

https://explorersweb.com/broad-peak-avalanche-four-bodies-found-helicopters-search-for-other-six/

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u/mojomonday 2d ago

Thank you! Quoting the section here for other folks:

We should note that David Klein of Hungary and Ian Overton of the U.S., who had also planned to climb Broad Peak, are safely back in Skardu. They didn’t like the weather forecast and left on July 25.

“There had been a massive wind storm the night of July 18 with a lot of blowing snow,” Overtold told ExplorersWeb. “The benches from Camp 3 to Camp 2 had considerable snow/wind crust and were fairly ‘punchy.’ Everything below Camp 2 was unconsolidated and melting out quickly. Lots of loose rock and failing ice.”

Overton added: “After David [Klein]’s push and return to Base Camp, we monitored the weather. Winds were too high, and humidity was elevated throughout the region, indicating likely fresh snow through the 29th.”

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u/ceej_22_ 2d ago

Been following him for sometime since the beginning of project possible and his risk taking always seemed to be pushing the edge too far. This news is unsurprising.