Nirmal Purja — star climber, elite British officer & MBE — dead on PoK peak
Purja, who died five days after his 43rd birthday, had been attempting to become the first mountaineer to climb all 14 eight-thousanders twice without supplemental oxygen Nepal-born British mountaineer Nirmal ‘Nimsdai’ Purja, 43, died with nine other climbers after an avalanche struck the 8,047m Broad Peak in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on July 30, only nine days after he…