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Nov 30, 2021 · Torquil Jones and Nirmal Purja on a Life Moving Mountains in “14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible”. The mountaineer and filmmaker talk about collaborating on this documentary about an unprecedented climb and a new perspective on the world.
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Dec 1, 2021 · Climbing spoke with Purja and the film’s director, Torquil Jones, over Zoom, while they were in New York City’s Netflix offices promoting 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible.
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is a 2021 documentary film directed by Torquil Jones, and produced by Noah Media Group, Little Monster Films and Torquil Jones with Nirmal Purja, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Vasarhelyi as executive producers.
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is a 2021 documentary film directed by Torquil Jones, and produced by Noah Media Group, Little Monster Films and Torquil Jones with Nirmal Purja, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Vasarhelyi as executive producers.
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Nirmal Purja, better known as Nims, was a Gurkha before he joined the Special Boat Services. The Gurkhas are considered to be one of the most feared and celebrated warrior clans. The British forces, as well as the Indian forces, have a regiment of Gurkha soldiers. They are known to be fierce, loyal, and above all, selfless towards their goals. Nims...
The first person to conquer all the 14 peaks, Reinhold Messner, had once said that mountains are not fair or unfair; they are just dangerous. But mountains were the least of the worries of the determined Gurkha warrior. Nims was finding it hard to get sponsorship and had decided to put his house on a mortgage to fund his expedition. He had an ailin...
Nims and his team had conquered the nasty Kanchenjunga, and with almost little or no energy left, they started moving down. One hundred meters below the summit, they found another climber. He was not in a good state. The “Mission Possible” team knew that if they would have left him behind, he would have surely died. But the team was not in a state ...
Nims asked this question to himself: is he doing it for self-glory or for something much greater. This question, I believe, should be asked by every rebel who sets out on his own expedition in life. If it’s to prove somebody wrong or just to catch eyeballs, then I believe one should quit it right away. But Nims was not doing all this to merely grab...
Dec 4, 2021 · Directed by Torquil Jones, ‘14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ is a documentary about a fearless mountaineer, Nirmal Purja (popularly known as Nimsdai), and his seemingly unattainable quest to summit all fourteen of the world’s 8000-metre peaks in seven months.
Nov 29, 2021 · Director Torquil Jones touches on a lot of material, skillfully using animation for some near-death experiences and less skillfully using special effects and editing to suggest the distortion of reality caused by HACE: high altitude cerebral edema.
