In 2019, former Gurkha and British Special Forces soldier Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja stunned the mountaineering world by climbing all fourteen of the planet’s 8,000-meter peaks in just six months and six days—shattering a record that had stood for decades. What had taken legends like Reinhold Messner sixteen years, Purja compressed into a single, relentless season he called Project Possible.