{"id":92488,"date":"2026-08-01T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92488"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:23:20","slug":"former-gurkha-nirmal-purja-found-dead-after-pakistan-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/former-gurkha-nirmal-purja-found-dead-after-pakistan-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gurkha Nirmal Purja found dead after Pakistan avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29c8wO.img?w=768&h=481&m=6&x=435&y=125&s=242&d=242\" alt=\"Nirmal Purja was best known for climbing all 14 mountains higher than 8,000 metres in 189 days - Aamir Qureshi\/AFP\" width=\"693\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A former Gurkha has been confirmed dead after\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/07\/31\/climber-nirmal-purja-missing-after-avalanche-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">going missing in an avalanche<\/a> on a Pakistani mountain, his expedition group announced.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/former-gurkha-nirmal-purja-found-dead-after-pakistan-avalanche\/ar-AA29bDH6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a6e1ca35e8c44f5a92f95924e0bf439&ei=14\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A former Gurkha has been confirmed dead after\u00a0going missing in an avalanche on a Pakistani mountain, his expedition group announced. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Nirmal-Purja.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92490,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92488\/revisions\/92490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}