His climbing career was still young when Nirmal Purja went up Dhaulagiri(世界第七高峰，海拔8167米), the seventh-highest peak in the world. He had been born in a village in its foothills(山麓，山脚下的小山丘), in a house shared with chickens, but the family had moved to Nepal’s lowland south when he was five. So he had barely registered(注意到，意识到) the magnificent wall of rock and snow, 8,167 metres of it, filling the horizon. Now, at 30, he was one of a climbing party toiling across(艰难地穿越) it.
当尼尔马尔·普尔贾攀登世界第七高峰道拉吉里峰时，他的登山生涯才刚刚开始。他出生在山脚下一个小村庄的房子里，与鸡同住，但五岁时全家搬到了尼泊尔南部的低地。因此，他几乎没有注意到那座壮丽的岩石和冰雪之墙，高达8167米，充满了地平线。如今，30岁的他是登山队中的一员，正在艰难地穿越这座山峰。
He took his turn, of course, at trailblazing(开路，开拓). And as he went, plunging knee-high into the snow, he was learning something extraordinary about himself. The altitude didn’t seem to be affecting him. He was strong. Each step arrived with power. Boom! Boom! Boom! Soon, the rest of the party were little black dots far below. He was in the flow(处于心流状态，全神贯注). In the zone(处于最佳状态，进入状态), bro! By the end he had trailblazed 70% of the route. It was more sensible(明智的，合理的) to share the task, and he accepted that. But if there were mountains to climb, he wanted to do it now. And do it fast, because he could.
当然，他也轮流负责开路。当他前进时，膝盖深陷雪中，他正在了解自己的一些非凡之处。海拔似乎对他没有影响。他很强壮。每一步都充满力量。砰！砰！砰！很快，队伍的其他成员变成了远处的小黑点。他进入了状态。在状态中，兄弟！到最后，他已经开辟了70%的路线。分担任务更明智，他接受了这一点。但如果有山要爬，他想现在就做。而且要快，因为他能。
His whole purpose in life was to perform feats(壮举，功绩) others thought impossible. He became world-famous when, in 2019, he left the British army (where he was a Gurkha(廓尔喀人，尼泊尔雇佣兵) and in the Special Forces) to climb all 14 mountains over 8,000 metres. That was the Death Zone(死亡地带，海拔8000米以上区域), in which the unassisted human body began to fail. It took him six months and six days; the previous record was more than seven years. He had laboured to find funding, but Project Possible, as he called it, was taken up by(被采纳，被接手) Netflix. They made it into a documentary, he wrote it up in a book, and thus he became a star. Billboards of him perching on summits, with the sun dazzling off his stylish reflector glasses, appeared in Manhattan. He was mobbed(被围堵，被簇拥) at airports, and in Nepal he was shawled(被披上哈达，被授予敬意) as a hero. Though ignorant of(对……无知，不了解) alcohol until he was 26, he came to like Taittinger champagne(泰亭哲香槟，法国著名香槟品牌). Western climbers hoping to be guided singly by him on one of his Elite Expeditions could expect to pay a million dollars.(希望在他的精英探险队中单独由他指导的西方登山者可能要支付一百万美元。)
他一生的全部目标就是完成别人认为不可能的壮举。2019年，他离开英国军队（他曾是廓尔喀特种部队成员），攀登所有14座海拔8000米以上的山峰，从此闻名世界。那就是死亡地带，在没有辅助的情况下，人体开始衰竭。他花了6个月零6天；之前的纪录是7年多。他努力寻找资金，但他所谓的“可能计划”被奈飞接手。他们把它拍成了纪录片，他把它写成了一本书，于是他成了明星。他在峰顶栖息、阳光从他时尚的反射镜上闪耀的广告牌出现在曼哈顿。他在机场被围堵，在尼泊尔被披上英雄的哈达。尽管直到26岁才对酒精无知，但他开始喜欢泰亭哲香槟。希望在他的精英探险队中单独由他指导的西方登山者可能要支付一百万美元。