{"id":10665,"date":"2019-11-01T23:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/nirmal-nims-purja-speed-climber-worlds-14-highest-peaks-everest"},"modified":"2019-11-01T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:44:43","slug":"its-not-about-ego-says-speed-climber-who-tamed-worlds-14-highest-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10665","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s not about ego&#8217;, says speed climber who tamed world&#8217;s 14 highest peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmal Purja says hardest part of his record-breaking feat was solving a diplomatic impasse with China<\/p>\n<p>Nirmal \u201cNims\u201d Purja\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/ex-soldier-climbs-worlds-14-highest-peaks-smashing-record-by-eight-years\">record-breaking ascent <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/ex-soldier-climbs-worlds-14-highest-peaks-smashing-record-by-eight-years\">of the world\u2019s 14 highest mountains<\/a> in just over six months drew plaudits and astonishment at his physical feat. But for the man himself, the climbing was \u201cthe easy part\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian from the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, Nims said the real challenges were the logistics and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/nirmal-nims-purja-speed-climber-worlds-14-highest-peaks-everest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmal Purja says hardest part of his record-breaking feat was solving a diplomatic impasse with ChinaNirmal \u201cNims\u201d Purja\u2019s record-breaking ascent of the world\u2019s 14 highest mountains in just over six months drew plaudits and astonishment at his physica&#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":[708,239,241,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-sports","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","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\/10665","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=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions\/10667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}