Motivation Daily by Motiversity - NEVER GIVE UP, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE | Best Motivational Speech | Nimsdai Purja

Episode Date: August 18, 2026

o achieve the impossible, have a goal that is bigger than you. Giving up is not in the blood. This video is dedicated to one of the greatest mountaineering climbers to ever live, Nirmal "Nimsdai" Purja. "I don't think most people understand the difference between being alive and living the life." - Nirmal PurjaNims Purja was a husband, father, son, brother, friend, special forces veteran, and a leader who inspired millions through his courage, humility and relentless determination. In 2019, he climbed all 14 eight-thousanders – peaks above 8,000 metres or 26,000 feet – in six months and six days with the aid of bottled oxygen (a record that stood for 4 years), and gained international recognition through his Netflix Documentary, Nothing Is Impossible. He continues to hold the record for the fastest ascent of all eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen at two years and 150 days. He was the first person to reach the summits of Mount Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu within 48 hours. In 2021, he and a team of nine other Nepalese climbers completed the first winter ascent of K2. Considered one of the most accomplished climbers of his generation, Purja is widely regarded as a major figure in modern high-altitude mountaineering. Rest in peace Nims, thank you for being an inspiration to millions around the world.We had the great fortune of interviewing Nims in 2025. The Motiversity team is thinking of him and his family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So there are 14 mountains in the world above 8,000 meters. And 8,000 meters is the death zone peak. So the fastest time was seven years, 11 months and 14 days. I said I'll do that in seven months. If the record for full marathon is now two hours, what I was saying there then was, I'm going to do that in 10 minutes. And that's why nobody will be able to get. You just need to commit.

The biggest thing is people talk about all this plan and everything. Every time I was like, hey man, things don't look like they're going to go through on this Inverna climb. He's like, I believe. Here we are staying on the summit. There are so many difficult things in life and with only those tough challenges and everything we grow. And that's where we learn, you know. Just keep that rhythm, keep that breathing and look.

It's not about any of these people or anybody just into it. Look, get that son. You will summit 100%. Just believe in it. that. It's that environment where I find myself alive. You know, we all live life, but are we alive? No, I don't think many people understand the difference between, you know, being alive and living the life. There's a matter where you come from, you can show the world. Nothing is impossible. You know, wherever you are, wherever you go, it's one life, right? And adventure brings life into the living.

But you are fighting your own war. Don't compete against anybody else. Just try to be best and better than who you were yesterday. I have a purpose in what I do. Because you're not just saying that thing for the sake of saying it. You need to mean it. If you don't mean that what you are saying to the bone, then you cannot really push that hard. Discipline is the only one thing that will differentiate you from being successful or being the best. Nothing will break me ever.

You can try, but nothing, you know, because I know who I am. You can lie the whole world, but you can never lie yourself. And I know who I am. So, no, I'm on breakable, but I am. Giving up is not in the blood, sir. It's not in the blood. How much time can you spend at the death zone before you, you know, die? For me, I can live there, you know?

You can live there. Yeah, it's a nymph style. So the nature is at, it's at, you know, purest form in the mountains, you know, there's, there's nothing really that kind of, like, negativity that human beings pollute, you know, it's just you and there's no, yes, of course, we have our own worries and our own challenges in life, but when you get over there, most of the things are put into perspective, you know. Look, we really forget, you know, when you are climbing at that really is you know you don't worry about how much money I'm making you don't worry about your

mortgage you don't worry about all these things you know the noise you know you just worry about how you're going to stay alive and and where and to be honest I think that's what it all comes down to in life you could have everything in the world but if you don't have good health it doesn't mean anything but sometimes we just get dragged on this I don't know whatever we call that tunnel where you forget the reality. So yeah. And I felt, you know, the energy is good. The environment is good.

The vibe is good and it's freshier. People say when it's like really howling wind and all that, they say, I said, it's fucking horrendous and all that. But I said, guys, it's a fresher. Guys, chill out. And they laugh, you know. You can always turn any negative into positive. What would you say is the hardest thing you've ever done?

The hardest thing that I think I have ever done is the rescue of Kanchanjanga. We submitted Kanchanjanga and on the way down, literally 50 meters below the summit, we found a climber, Indian climber. He was out of his oxygen and he was basically left by his guide by his team. So straight away, we went into the rescue mode and we were three myself. Bigma David and Getsman, we three started to bring this guy down and it's quite technical, you know, because 50 meters below the summit of Kanchenjanga, the trend is not that easy. And it's quite hard to bring it down. So the three brought him down probably around 100 meters.

Then we found another climber who is again in the same situation. He is basically flat out dying and and none of his team members were there. So at that, point you know I gave my own personal oxygen the science is you know if you already are climbing without oxygen that means your body's acclimatized your body's adjusting but if you're climbing with oxygen and you come off the oxygen that is completely different level but if anybody does that they will probably die it as well but obviously I knew what my capabilities and my limitations were so so I took the rick and gave him the oxygen and now we are bringing two people down And it was a bright daylight when we started the first rescue.

And as soon as, you know, like, we saw this person, the first thing I do is from these special forces. You know, you establish the comes. You know, you ask for help. So there were a lot of climbers at Campo. So, you know, of course, for three of us to do the rescue, it's quite tough. So I got on the radio and asked them. them for help and even the guys at Campo they responded and they said okay NIMS we're going to come to help you don't worry you know even even from their team members were at Campo as well not only

the rest of the climbers but everybody was there so even their team members you know okay you know we're going to come up to support you so in my mind i'm thinking okay there are people coming up so that means i don't put any reserve you know i'm going full on fully strength full power to bring these two people as low as possible at the quickest time possible. So that means you're giving 100% right. But eventually what happened was as the sun started to sit, you know, you normally see the head toes of people climbing up. You know, you see that on the mountains, but I didn't say any head torches. So straight away, I was like, I was, you know, I started worrying because I was oh, you know, these guys were supposed to be now really close to us, but now there's no head torches.

That means no one has come. At this point, what happened was the first individual that we had rescued, he ran out of oxygen. And within 15 minutes of him out of the oxygen, because we don't have any oxygen now, this person died. Okay. So now at this point, Gessman was like, Luke brother, you know, I'm feeling. feeling really cold, my toes are getting really cold and you know I'm at the verge of putting myself you know into this situation so I'll be liabilities you know I

really have to go down so I said okay man you know like please go down so he left and now is me and Mingma David you know trying to bring this another alive individual and we're bringing him a bit down and then probably David was there for me couple of hours and then he started feeling again cold and I think to that point he started a whole setting as well so he said again Nimstai you know I cannot do this anymore I'm gonna go so now it just left me alone to do one-on-rescue so I'm bringing this guy to a point you know where like it was so so tough but also I felt like why I was giving so much is like

whenever I do anything or whenever I make any decisions in life, I always put myself in their shoes. So I was thinking, okay, if I was this guy, you know, who's in this situation, then, you know, I have family, you know, so I would not want somebody to just leave me here. So, you know, when I think like that, I kind of operate in different level with a different mindset. So I started doing the rescues continues for hours. Now, I can't. I can see Campo is pretty much I would say half an hour, less than half an hour away from where we were. But if I have to bring this person alone down to Campo, it will probably take me, I don't know, three hours or probably more, because it's just myself dragging this guy. So at that point I had to make the decision. I was like, okay, you know, you stay here, you're not going to move anywhere. I'm just going to quickly run to Campo and wake up your team members.

if you're not your team members there are other people and I'm going to come to you so I went down but as I went down then I found another climber who was lost you know he was lost and he was just like basically he was he was he was hallucinating and he was just like standing straight but he was thinking that he was abselling so his hands were like he was grabbing his own safety code and he was doing like yeah I'm going down I'm I was like you know you're not going down you know you are you You know, so I grabbed him and I took him down to Campo and put him in the tent and now I start screaming for help. You know, guys, you know, there's one guy, he's not even far and but nobody, nobody woke

up, nobody, literally. But even before that, you know, when I was alone and all that, I was on the radio constantly, guys, you know, all those people who answered, they turned the radio off and didn't respond, you know. So I think at that point I was really... really hurt because all these people at Campo could they have come and help us? Yes, absolutely. You know, my whole, the suffering of my body was next level. So when I came to Campo, after screaming to everybody and all that, nobody was even waking up. Nobody even responding.

I went to the tent and said, guys, please, you know, no respond. So I think that really showed me a crew color of many human beings and at that point um look i'm i'm not really easy to cry but at this point i was crying on tears i got my sad phone and i called my my wife so i keep continuing down and and i got to the base camp and i went to the next mountain uh but yeah that's the hardest thing perhaps because of all those reasons wow the thing is like look you you can break all the world records and stuff, but if you are not human and if you are not that person, I don't see any

value in that. You know, I think, and then you are just self-centered. You don't care about what's happening around you. Everybody has their one life. It's not only you, everybody, and sometimes people are so driven by the

records that they forget what it really means to be human. You know, and people forget what if that person was you. Just put yourself in their shoes and all the answers comes in your face. It is not that hard. If you're that person who is going through that, you know, whiskey situation, who is like dying and then if nobody helps you, how would you have felt?

It's very simple. There's no hard rocket signs in all this. It's just easy, you know, just ask that question. And the answer would be there. And if you were on that situation, if nobody helps, how would you have felt? To achieve the impossible, ladies and gentlemen, have a goal that is bigger than you. If your purpose is bigger than you, you will always achieve the impossible. I am Nymestai, Nirmal Prusa. I was born in Nepal.

I was raised in the Gaiqas and I was made in the United Kingdom Special Forces. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much.