Quotes from Nirmal Purja

It's part of my Special Forces training. You're taught to come up with a solutions, not look for excuses.

We've climbed in 60- to 75-kilometer-an-hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have.

Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain.

Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country.

My favorite food is dahl bhat, the only Nepalese food you can eat on all the expeditions. Everyone from the mountaineering community would know this!

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports.

I was born in Nepal, I grew up in the Gurkhas, and I became a man in the SBS.

When you say you are from Nepal, people always ask you if you've seen Everest. And I had to say no. I felt like I had to go and do this, just for my sanity.

When I joined the special forces it was never for the money. It was for pure desire to serve in an elite unit.

We used to live in this little house where the whole of the upper floor was used for chickens. It was four days' walk to the nearest road.

When people are in stressful situations, they do shout.

There were no good schools in my village. So my family moved so that my siblings and I would get a better education.