When Nirmal Purja, or ‘Nims’, told the world he wanted to beat the world record for climbing the 14 highest mountains in the world in succession, it was met with disbelief. 

The previous record holder had done it in 7 years, 10 months and 6 days. This Former Gurkha and special forces soldier wanted to knock them all off in just 7 months. To put that in perspective: in terms of total height ascended, this was the equivalent of climbing vertically from sea level to space – into a time frame shorter than a football season. It was not humanly possible, people told him. That didn’t stop him. New Netflix film 14 Peaks documents Nirmal’s journey to push the boundaries of human limits, in what he named: ‘mission possible’.

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