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@amitsurg
Dec 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Who is the greatest sports person in the history of the world across all domains of physical endurance and achievement? Most of you may not have even heard his name. He is Nirmal “Nims” Purja, the fastest man to climb all fourteen 8000 meter Himalayan peaks - in just six months.
Reinholdt Meissner, first to climb all fourteen 8000ers took 17 years to do it. The fastest it has ever been done was 7 years. But Nims Purja did it in an incredible 6 months. He summitted Everest, Lhotse (4th highest) and Makalu (5th highest) in a total of just 48 hours. Total.
Climbing Kanchenjunga in a single day from base camp to summit while hungover 🤯
Nirmal wasn’t satisfied with breaking six world records on this mind bending and physically near impossible feat. He wanted to go further. And he did. He then set the world record for the fastest Big Five (tallest peaks of all continents). He did all in less than two months.
In January 2021, Nirmal went on to summit K2, where many a great mountaineer have perished in the best of weather conditions, a second time. Without supplementary oxygen. And in peak winter, when temperatures drop to -80 degrees.
climbing.com/people/nirmal-…
In a mountaineering career of just nine years, Nirmal now holds ten world records, most of which will probably never be broken. His team member and now business partner Mingma Sherpa became the youngest to summit all fourteen 8000m peaks, at age 30.
Catch his stunning biography on Netflix, 14 Peaks. Trailer is on YouTube.
Nirmal jokingly called himself the “Usain Bolt of the eight thousanders”. But Usain Bolt only needed to sprint for ten seconds on smooth ground (he’s an amazing athlete too). Nirmal’s playground is the “death zone” above 8000m, where oxygen is not enough for life to exist.

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Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha, 1955:
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- Dr BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha on 19 March 1955. But who was Ambedkar calling “asuras”, and why? 2/n
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Congress needs a better CA as the present one seems to be as incompetent as the party leadership. Short thread with screenshots of the court judgment. The matter goes back to 2019 when congress failed to file its IT returns in time, due to which its income became taxable. 1/n
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Minutes later, the hotel mails her saying their account was compromised and that knew about it but did nothing. She immediately realised the fraud and called @bookingcom . She was assured of refund by the operator. booking.com
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It’s been almost a month now, and @bookingcom are now not responding and haven’t refunded the amount either. A cyber crime complaint has also been registered. The notification came through the app itself and from the hotels own account. Hence they will be the accused in the FIR.
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Have you ever heard the names of these young freedom fighters, all aged between 21 and 25, who were tried and executed by the British? If not, don’t be sad: you’re one of 99.999% citizens of Bharat who don’t.
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The British intelligence got news that these soldiers were planning “sabotage, incendiarism wherever
possible, tampering with the loyalty of the forces by trying to
cause desertions and encouraging tensions and rivalries amongst
soldiers housed in army barracks.”
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Nehru, who said he would fight against INA personally on the Indian border, realised this would be big. He put his appearance on record and walked away with credit for defending the INA soldiers. And then made sure they would never get pension or be employed in the Indian army.
It was actually much worse than this. Nehru also begged for continuance of dominion status, which was declined by the British as they didn’t want to take any further responsibility.
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