Nirmal Purja Allegations Send Shockwaves Through Climbing Community | Climbing Daily Ep.2417
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In a recent New York article, published on the 31st of May allegations of sexual assault have surfaced against mountaineer Nirmal Purja. In this video we look into the allegations and the potential repercussions on the industry.
The following are articles that have been referenced in this video:
New York Times: nyti.ms/3R97voz
Climbing.com bit.ly/3V96M8m
Outside Magazine bit.ly/3Kvc4WB
#safeoutside: bit.ly/3VrvIJv
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My friend is in this community and he literally told me about Nims alarming reputation over a year ago
Good on EpicTV for actually making a video dedicated to this
Take the accusations seriously and investigate. Lets find the truth.
00:40 challenge to climb all 8'000 peaks not 7000 peaks
The Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation today recommended stern action against celebrated climber Nirmal 'Nims' Purja and his company - Elite Exped- for violating mountaineering rules of the country. As of today 🎉
I appreciate this video. The whining in the comments proves that the issue is pervasive and these conversations are necessary. Keep up the good work.
This man tied me to a chair and forced me to watch spider man 3 on repeat while only eating vegan food. For a week straight.
Evidence? No. Believe all victims.
@@Synergy7Studios Nothing wrong with vegan food
It lacks proper protein as its grossly underestimated what's needed. 1.2-2g/kg body weight. Not good.@@00PlPu00
@@Synergy7Studiosyoure a psychopath. Do better.
@@Synergy7Studios😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this video. I hope that you will do a follow-up in late June 2024, now that he has been banned from doing business in Nepal.
this news is not new in nepal there are many allegations againts nims and he have bought news media and police in nepal before
That's all BS
Someone started a smear campaign against him because he tried to save someone's life during Project possible & know one would help him. He & other climbers almost died because know one would help them. He spoke negatively about those who wouldn't help so they started a smear campaign.
It's all BS he's one of the Good ones
get help
My friends a climber and literally told me about Nims reputation. He’s worked with him many times. He was disgusted by him
@@spo0ny2kWhat Nims do?
Yup these white people trying to keep up their elite status.
@@spo0ny2kWho Bowie? He's 😂no climber
This is so disappointing.
He has destroyed the true spirit of mountaineering. He has made it a circus
@@AlexGroverUnfiltered "Lots of women make these accusations for notoriety" - citation needed
@@00PlPu00 It happens, but we gone so woke we don't discuss it. Nims is a class act and a gentleman. He was a Ghurka and in the SBS before climbing mountains. I don't see him acting unruly. After seeing Kirstin Harila's behavior towards her fellow human on K2, I would give Nims the benefit of the doubt. The Scandinavian women are not above everyone and their word is absolute. Here are cases where women falsely accused men.
Nikki Yovino (2017): Yovino, a student at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, falsely accused two football players of raping her. She later admitted to police that she had fabricated the allegations to gain sympathy from another student she wanted to date. Yovino was sentenced to one year in prison for making false rape claims.
Crystal Mangum (2006): Mangum falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her at a party. The case received extensive media coverage and sparked national debates on issues of race, class, and the criminal justice system. After a year-long investigation, all charges were dropped, and it was determined that Mangum had fabricated the story. The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred for his handling of the case.
Emma Sulkowicz (2014): Sulkowicz, a student at Columbia University, accused a fellow student, Paul Nungesser, of raping her. She gained national attention for her performance art piece, "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)," in which she carried a mattress around campus to symbolize the burden of her alleged assault. An internal university investigation cleared Nungesser of wrongdoing, and he later sued Columbia University, settling out of court.
Wanetta Gibson (2002): As mentioned earlier, Gibson falsely accused high school football player Brian Banks of rape. Banks was wrongfully convicted and spent over five years in prison before Gibson admitted she had fabricated the story.
I just found nims yesterday, his record of strength puts 99% of humanity to shame but... The first thing I thought was "he can conquer the earth BUT, it's often harder to conquer himself." And.... Here we are.
All of that strength and no will power.
Turns out... He's not so different from westerners and Europeans after all.
Don’t know about sexual abuse but Nims definitely has an alcohol problem. In the netflix documentary he made one of the ascents hung over and subsequently almost died. You don’t have to be an elite athlete to know that alcohol will negatively affect your body for 72 hours after drinking
Nims is Working and in Nepal and Climbing with his company also gliding clients. He told me all this talk is like water off a ducks back to him. He will continue with no limitations from the jealous peanut gallery. Namaste🤙💪🙏
This man has overstepped his bounds. He became a star, but he does not do good things! He cheats, sexually harasses and brags about himself.
u have proof?or did he do anything with ur mom?....onces people become succesfull others trie to pull him down
If it were Jesus, I wouldn't care either. I don't climb mountains, I don't care either. Read articles, you'll find it. I am careful when someone is glorified
Did this ever come to a resolution?
Have you seen his wife ??? ….i don’t believe the allegations atall
Genuine cases of accusations are being denied due to the abundance of false accusations. Such a pity.
Cant look up to anyone anymore smh
Your parents?
Sherpa people are climbing mountain more than 70+ years that's the reason we respect Sherpa people they are humble and and nice we had never bad news about sherpa people but Nirmal puja Defaming name of Nepal, sherpas and mountaineering in just few years. Very sad with Nirmal purja.
Nima has a bad reputation in that topic
His accomplishments demand and deserve respect, but I find Nim's arrogance, relentless anti-western whinging and almost complete lack of gratitude to his sponsors incredibly distasteful. If proven to be true, these mounting allegations will write him off in my book of mountaineering legends.
He ain’t anti western g, he just stated if a western climber did it he would become more famous. People like you wanna shit on him without knowing the truth
@@itiswhatitisbha2979 The fact he states it at every opportunity speaks volumes about his agenda. I'm not shitting on him without knowing the 'truth', I'm a keen mountaineer and I've consumed every documentary, interview and report about NP, I'm simply expressing my opinion based on everything I've seen and read.
@@OliCM3 same here, you act like you know him personally and have met him. Acting like he has a lack of gratitude for his sponsors when you don’t know one clue about him and his sponsors. Even if you’re stating your opinion I have my right to state my opinion to yours. If you don’t like it then don’t comment at all.
@@itiswhatitisbha2979 Mate?! You’re the one who attacked my opinion! If you don’t like it, YOU can jog on
I could say the same about you not knowing him personally, I never acted like I did in the first place.
He barely mentions them ever, too busy whining about how he’s not been given enough attention by the prejudice West. Doesn’t talk much about the fact he chose to immigrate to the West, work for a Western company and gain most of his expedition funds from Western donations & sponsorships.
@ look at you, can’t see a brown man succeed so all you do is wanting to tarnish a man’s legacy that your whole entire life couldn’t achieve, you said you are stating your opinion but all you do is attack the guy and masking it as “your opinion”. He fought in a western army fighting for you “westerns” and you claim he is anti western and what if he is, he’s done more for you the you have done in the “western world” His just stating a facts if a western man did what he done he would be famous, have all the props and more. You bite the bait from my comment, look at your last comments it’s pathetic just shows what type of man you are. You aren’t even 1% of nims. Just a waste of space 🤣
some cultures just have a lack of respect for women. when he says he didn't do anything wrong, maybe he really thinks so. it is good that this issue has been raised and escalated, it will give some lessons not only to him but to the others too
Which culture is free from patriarchal values nowadays...? These were imposed by a mix of Abrahamic religions, colonialism and capitalism virtually everywhere on Earth now
I haven't seen much evidence that white American dudes, whether famous climbers or Presidents, have tremendous "respect for women."
Please don’t drag the whole culture down. Us Nepalese do not support shit like this. It’s horrendous
Where's the evidence?
yes, that culture is not like the one present in your culture. Is it a perfect culture? no. But are there more divorce rates, single mothers, adultery? Let's keep it fair, let's talk proportionally to the total population assimilated to that culture.
I believe the victims
I believe the victims.
You beat me unconscious in an ally for fun and laughed. What's wrong with you?
Innoncent to proven guilty. The two women provided nothing other then they were sexually harassed....thats incredibly vague. This is how head hunting starts, hopefully these instances follow due process.
You read the NYT article?
Your comment is not only incredibly vague but the usual media victimhood narrative of those who use violence and get away with it because it is easier to blame and make allegations against real victims
@@formlessukTrevor Bauer
@@formlessukthe NYT constantly lies.
@@formlessukNYT is a rag. They are the new National Enquiry
if he would climb all "SEVEN"-thousand -meter peaks in the World - that would be AN ACHIEVMENT !
I still think we need to see some prove of anything before conviction. There’s still innocence before proven guilty and we can’t just believe words sadly
Did you read the article?? Is victim testimony as well others who confirmed the victims statements as well as text messages not enough proof?
@@dbars201 great now go through a trial and get a real conviction.
Statue of limitations I think in Nepal is 1 year.
@@dbars201why wait tho? I want to believe her however there’s far too many stories of people making up stuff and that makes these situations hard
@@dbars201hearsay is not evidence
I dunno man…with regard to the Nims allegations, it’s not that I don’t believe the women, but without any real investigations or finalization, you’re all of a sudden at a point where you say that the climbing community has a long way to go to repair itself? I suppose this also includes the numbers you gave from men and women who feel they have had sexual advances (or whatever the statement was), but it seems like you skipped an awful lot of important due diligence to suddenly arrive at the judgment that the climbing community, including Nims, are tainted. There were a couple of witnesses who supported Nims’ claims in response to the allegations, so maybe there is more to this than meets the eye. Regardless, I’m not saying that we should immediately discount anything, but to automatically jump to how awful the industry is and be so contrite about it is not how I would react. If anything, present it as news and wait to pass judgment until more facts are known.
Although I agree on the further investigation, I feel like you miss a big part of the video and the article that mentions that this subject is widely underrepresented and many victims are not even heard out or given a voice to talk about this, and that is something that needs to change. Climbing should be a socially safe environment to all, regardless of their gender or background. And yes, there is a LOT of discrimination against women in this sport, not just sexually. So saying ''the climbing and mountaineering world has a lot to do'' (not that the industry is awful, no one mentioned this) is definitely true.
And yet here you are passing vague judgement instead of engaging more directly with the climbing community and being more aware of what is actually happening beyond your media crusade. It's up to you as an adult to learn to think more critically in regards to public issues like this and to be a safe person at a more local level. If you aren't aware of how bad this issue is around you, it's because folk don't see you as someone they can talk to about it, probably because you grandstand and say I believe....BUT....and then you try to dictate other folks realities instead of letting them change the harmful culture you are defending
I think you and I have heard the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty" before.
@ash2521 yes it is frequently parroted by insecure men who don't want to think for themselves and look at the evidence in front of them. None of us are pretending to be judges here but supporting our community members and changing harmful culture takes more than the legal system, especially considering the reality that the majority of abuse is not reported due to the harmful culture and what is reported is rarely convicted. Change the culture and the legal accountability will finally follow
@@simonwilliams9850 so, you have all the evidence? You have all the context? You have the transcripts of witnesses on both sides? You have sworn testimony beyond what somebody “claims” as truth? If you have ALL that information then of course you’re better positioned to make an accurate call of “guilty” or “innocent,” but otherwise you can politely piss off. Without knowing the key aspects of what this woman said and the totality of evidence, it is not for me to pass judgement. So before you start calling me insecure, think of how you would want to be treated if you were accused of something. The court of public opinion has taken WAY too much precedence over actual facts…of which you (likely) have none, beyond the accusations. Like I said…how would you wish to be treated if you were being accused of something similar? By your statement, you’ve basically taken the reverse practice of an assumption of guilt based on a historical metric of abuse not being reported. My guess is you’ll lie, here, but I’m pretty sure you would be begging for your day in court so that all evidence could be adjudicated. I’m all for supporting EVERYONE in the community, and I’m not saying he didn’t do it…rather, because I’m 8000 miles away and have heard NO EVIDENCE, I will not indict either party. You might consider doing the same instead of using previous facts (that have nothing to do with this case) to assume guilt.
Херня! Доказательств нет, заявлений нет. ничто не мешало пойти в полицию сразу, а не ждать несколько лет.
I’m surprised you’re not wearing your Betas for Harris shirt during this video.
Believe victims
As much as we should, we need to have proof or something
You know, as a guy that doesn't want to be part of the problems - and wants to be part of the solutions - I would like to agree with you. But, as with the Angels baseball player's recent court case, the gal who accused him of sexual assault was actually found to be attempting to extort him. I am NOT saying that happened in the case of these two mountaineering ladies - and I have NOT read any of the articles or supporting evidence (just saw this video), but I can't just automatically believe victims. It becomes a "trust, but verify" situation. Women should not get a pass on evidence, just because they claim something; men should not get branded as an "assault-er" just because they've been accused. I am sympathetic to these two ladies and victims in general, but cannot support "she said therefore it must be true."
Believe the truth.
That's a shit take mate
@@blackfox1320 spoken like a true dudemanbro
Nims gotta stop raping
If Nirmal Purja truly be sexually assaulting, sexually harassing and raping then he must be stopped! Full investigation and necessary probe needs to be conducted.
His wife supported him when he was starting the 14 peaks project and this was his way of paying her back it true...heartbreaking for her too.
See Michael Kobold The Harvey Weinstein Of Mountaineering
If Nirmal Purja truly be sexually assaulting, sexually harassing and worse then he must be stopped! Full investigation and necessary probe needs to be conducted.
His wife supported him when he was starting the 14 peaks project and this was his way of paying her back if true...heartbreaking for her too.
See Michael Kobold The Harvey Weinstein Of Mountaineering