Star of Netflix Documentary Missing After Avalanche

Navesh Chitrakar/REUTERS World-renowned climber Nirmal Purja, who starred in a hit Netflix documentary, has gone missing after an avalanche on one of the highest peaks in the world. The 43-year-old climber rose to global fame in 2019 after completing a historic sprint up all 14 of the world’s peaks above 8,000 meters in just over six months, a feat that was captured in the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. Purja was scaling Pakistan’s 26,400-foot-tall Broad Peak with 10 other…