Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid is one of the world’s Seven Summits – situated in Indonesia, in the province of Papua. Standing on the top of Carstensz Pyramid peak, Nims completes his Seven Summits Challenge.
Renowned as a mountaineering feat, adventurers have to summit all seven of the highest peaks on each continent on Earth to complete the challenge. The other peaks are Everest in the Himalayas, Aconcagua in Argentina, South America, Denali in North America, Mt Elbrus in Russia, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
Now that Nims has done Carstensz Pyramid and finished the Seven Summits Challenge, he is the only person on Earth to have done the Seven Summits plus the 14 highest peaks in the world, both with and without, supplemental oxygen.
This latest summit marks another record in an astonishing record-breaking month for the mountaineer and former Gurkha and UKSF. In the month of October 2024, Nims has already completed his 14 Peaks challenge without the use of supplementary oxygen, and summitted his 50th 8,000m peak. This means Nims has set three new world records in just five days:
- Nims becomes the fastest person to climb all the 14 Peaks without any supplementary oxygen in 2 years 4 months and 28 days. (Completed 4th October 2024.)
- Nims is also the fastest (and only) person to achieve the 14 peaks feat both with and without oxygen, in just 5 years, 5 months and 12 days (23rd April 2019 to 4th October 2024.)
- He is also the only person to have done 50 x 8,000m summits. (Completed 9th October 2024.)
Nims said he was proud to share these incredible moments with his friends and the Big Mountain community. He said:
“Every challenge I do is for a bigger purpose and mission – it is to raise the name of the Big Mountain communities around the world- to shine a light on the guides, porters and teams that make the impossible, possible for mountaineers each season. We are one mountain community and I am proud to do my part to raise the name of Nepal and all other Big Mountain communities.
“The mountains are my home and I believe we need to all do our part to ensure a thriving and sustainable community. We need to look to the future and ensure that well-paid and prestigious jobs are available to the younger generations in the Big Mountains.
“This will ensure a prosperous and thriving Big Mountain economy for years to come and stop the younger generation feeling the need to move to the cities to find well-paid and prestigious work. Sustainable, eco-friendly tourism is the future and we all have our part to play in continuing to build that for the future.”
Photo credit: Nimsdai