{"id":10546,"date":"2019-10-29T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/ex-soldier-climbs-worlds-14-highest-peaks-smashing-record-by-eight-years"},"modified":"2019-10-29T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:03:03","slug":"ex-soldier-climbs-worlds-14-highest-peaks-in-189-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10546","title":{"rendered":"Ex-soldier climbs world&#8217;s 14 highest peaks in 189 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gurkha Nirmal Purja completed feat in six months and six days<\/p>\n<p>A Nepalese former British army soldier has climbed all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000-metre-high mountains in a record-breaking 189 days \u2013 a feat that has taken other climbers years to achieve. <\/p>\n<p>Nirmal \u201cNims\u201d Purja, who came to international attention this year with the publication of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NimsPurja\/\">shocking photograph of a queue of climbers<\/a> close to the summit of Everest, completed the last of his 14 climbs, to the summit of Shishapangma, at 8.58am local time on Tuesday, almost exactly on the schedule predicted by his support team last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/ex-soldier-climbs-worlds-14-highest-peaks-smashing-record-by-eight-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gurkha Nirmal Purja completed feat in six months and six daysA Nepalese former British army soldier has climbed all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000-metre-high mountains in a record-breaking 189 days \u2013 a feat that has taken other climbers years to achiev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[239,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}