India, Aug. 1 -- Nirmal Purja, the Nepali-British climber popularly known as Nims or Nimsdai, died after being swept away by an avalanche that struck Broad Peak in Pakistan at an altitude of around 7,000 metres on Thursday.

The famed mountaineer's final social media post before his untimely death has now caught the internet's attention, as it explains his reasons for undertaking the climb and reveals the larger feat he hoped to achieve.

In his final social media post, Purja wrote about the unlikely chances that led him to scale Broad Peak. "This was never the plan," he explained. "Initially, the plan was to climb just G2. But just before setting off for Pakistan, I ran the numbers on my 8000m summits. That's when it hit me: if I tick of...