Ex-soldier climbs world's 14 highest peaks in 189 days

Former Gurkha Nirmal Purja completed feat in six months and six days

A Nepalese former British army soldier has climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre high mountains in a record-breaking 189 days - a feat that has taken other climbers years to achieve.

Nirmal "Nims" Purja, who came to international attention this year with the publication of his shocking photograph of a queue of climbers close to the summit of Everest, completed the last of his 14 climbs, to the summit of Shishapangma, at 8.58am local time on Tuesday, almost exactly on the schedule predicted by his support team last week.