It is with great sadness that the passing of ‘Nims’ Nirmal Purja has been confirmed today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyljq79kdko

We wish to record our sincerest sympathy with the family and friends of hero and patriot Nirmal Purja whose mountaineering achievements have no parallel. What at this time maybe forgotten is that he was also a patriot, speaking for ending the pension and rights of too many of the heroic Gurkhas https://www.instagram.com/p/CWkgJzlIY1K/. We remember this and hope that under the new Prime Minister of the UK, the Rt Hon Andy Burnham’s government that at last this blot on the name of the British state (Whitehall) can be removed with Just and Delivered resolution, by the new Secretary of State for Defence.

Once more it is with great sadness that the news of the passing of this exceptional person has been learned!