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		<title>30th anniversary of the first &#8211; ever summit of Mt Everest in the Winter season.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (February 17, 1980) was the 30th anniversary of the first-ever summit of Mount Everest in the Winter season.
Two Polish mountaineers, Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy, reached the top of the world’s highest peak in 1980, going down in history as the first people to get there in winter.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday (February 17, 1980) was the 30th anniversary of the first-ever summit of Mount Everest in the Winter season.</p>
<p>Two Polish mountaineers, <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/krzysztof-wielicki-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> and <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/leszek-cichy-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Leszek Cichy</a>, reached the top of the world’s highest peak in 1980, going down in history as the first people to get there in winter.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-126" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2010/02/Mt-Everest-1980-first-winter-ascent-K-Wielicki-and-L-Cichy.jpg" alt="Mt Everest 1980 first winter ascent -K Wielicki and L Cichy" width="600" height="621" /><br />
Over the last 30 years, seven people have so far completed the challenge in winter time, however, in Summer, the journey is easier, so 3,500 have managed to summit Everest.</p>
<p>The 20-strong group which initially set off for the mountain was whittled down to two – the final leg of the journey upwards took seven hours, said Leszek Cichy to Polish Radio.<br />
There isn’t much snow in the Himalayas in winter, as it is blown off by heavy wind. Mount Everest is fortified against mountaineers with large slabs of ice, strong winds and frost. The temperatures in tents at night dropped to minus 40˚C.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were high up on the ridge, the nearest people were several hours walking distance away from us. The only thing that allows us to keep in touch was radio. The wind was strong. And, as we were descending, dusk set in and snow from western face blew in the air. And we found ourselves on the border between what is real and unreal, on the border between shadow and the sun, night and day, and also, in a way, between life and death,&#8221; Cichy said, referring to the last stages of the ascent.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-125" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2010/02/Mt-Everest-1980-first-winter-ascent-Uczestnicy-wyprawy-w-bazie-fot.-Bogdan-Jankowski.jpg" alt="Mt Everest 1980 first winter ascent -Uczestnicy wyprawy w bazie (fot. Bogdan Jankowski)" width="553" height="600" /> Mt Everest 1980 first winter ascent &#8211; team.</p>
<p style="text-align: left"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-127" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2010/02/Leszek-Cichy-presents-note-which-in-1979-Ray-Genet-left-on-top-of-Mount-Everest.jpg" alt="Leszek Cichy presents note which in 1979 Ray Genet left on top of Mount Everest" width="442" height="690" /></p>
<p>* Source : – <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/30-rocznica-zimowego-wejscia-na-mt-everest-droga-do-sukcesu/">http://himalman.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p>* Related Links :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../../2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Krzysztof Wielicki the famous Polish climber./ Version polish and english /" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2007/11/06/krzysztof-wielicki-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank">Krzysztof Wielicki the famous Polish climber./ Version polish and english /</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Leszek Cichy the famous Polish climber. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2008/02/18/leszek-cichy-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Leszek Cichy the famous Polish climber. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2010/01/18/2009/12/25/2007/11/13/krzysztof-wielicki-polish-winter-expedition-1980-part-1/" target="_blank">Polish winter expedition 1980: Everest – part  1</a></p>
<p>- <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2010/01/18/2009/12/25/2007/11/14/krzysztof-wielicki-polish-winter-expedition-1980-part-2/" target="_blank">Polish winter expedition 1980: Everest – part 2</a></p>
<p>- <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2010/01/18/2009/12/25/2007/11/15/krzysztof-wielicki-polish-winter-expedition-1980-part-3/" target="_blank">Polish winter expedition 1980: Everest – part 3</a></p>
<p>- <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/2010/01/28/2010/01/18/2009/12/25/2007/11/16/krzysztof-wielicki-polish-winter-expedition-1980-part-4/" target="_blank">Polish winter expedition 1980: Everest – part 4</a></p>
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		<title>Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards : Park Young Seok, new route on Mount Everest.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Climbing all the 14×8000ers and walking to both poles, in 2005 Korean Park Young-Seok completed the world’s first Adventure Grand Slam.
With him at the North Pole were two of his closest friends; accomplished high altitude mountaineers Oh Hee-Joon and Lee Hyun-Jo.
Everest traverse
Oh Hee-Joon used to deliver 47kg parcels to the Halla mountain shelter [...]]]></description>
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<p>Climbing all the 14×8000ers and walking to both poles, in 2005 Korean Park Young-Seok completed the world’s first Adventure Grand Slam.<a href="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/everest-sw-face-new-route-topo.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/everest-sw-face-new-route-topo.jpg?w=280&amp;h=414" alt="" width="280" height="414" /></a></p>
<p>With him at the North Pole were two of his closest friends; accomplished high altitude mountaineers Oh Hee-Joon and Lee Hyun-Jo.</p>
<p><strong>Everest traverse</strong></p>
<p>Oh Hee-Joon used to deliver 47kg parcels to the Halla mountain shelter in Korea’s mountains to make money for his training lessons and was known for his remarkable strength.</p>
<p>One year after the North Pole crossing he summited Everest from the north side – with Park who then traversed the mountain with another regular team-mate.</p>
<p>Serap Jangbu Sherpa had summited K2 with Park in 2001, witnessing his 14th 8000er. Now a hard Everest descent awaited the two.</p>
<p>The route was not yet opened leaving the climbers to come down without fixed rope or camps in worsening weather. With only one head-lamp, the exhausted men finally crashed in another team’s tent in camp 3 on Everest south side.</p>
<p><strong>While we looked elsewhere</strong></p>
<p>The wild ideas mounted. The next year in 2007 Oh and Lee followed Park again, this time to attempt the SW face of Everest. This is where the triumphs ended. Oh Hee-Joon, 37, and Lee Hyun-Jo, 34, fell to their deaths high above 8000 meters.</p>
<p>Seume said it well already centuries ago: <em>“Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.” <a href="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/young-seoks-everest-sw-face-team.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/young-seoks-everest-sw-face-team.jpg?w=280&amp;h=441" alt="" width="280" height="441" /></a><br />
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<p>Of course Park Young-Seok knew that. Still he broke down. 6 months later he re-emerged from a serious boozing spree, ready to tackle the dreaded face again, for his lost friends exactly.</p>
<p>“I will conquer the peak at any cost,” he said. “I’ll climb up even if my calf is ruptured. I’ve built a good and bad relationship with the southwestern wall. It’s about time I concluded it.”</p>
<p>In that spirit, while all attention was focused on the normal route, Mr Park summited Everest this spring via a new line on the immense and technical SW Face.</p>
<p>“This is one of the most significant events this season, since the other two routes on the SW Face were opened long ago,” concluded ExWeb’s contributor and statistician Rodrigo Granzotto Peron. “27 years after, now we have a third route, a Korean Route.”</p>
<p>Related story: <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=18361" target="_blank"> Breaking news: Mr Park climbs Everest SW face.</a></p>
<p>Related story: <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/category/routes/" target="_blank">Routes to climb Everest</a>.</p>
<p>Related story: <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=18843" target="_blank"> StatCrunch, take 2: 8000er national ranking.</a></p>
<p>Related story: <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/ChomolungmaNirvana-theRoutesofMountEverestMay292004.shtml" target="_blank"> Pete Poston’s Chomolungma Nirvana – the Routes of Mount Everest.</a><br />
<em><br />
Special mentions:<br />
- Good guys leaving too early: Tomaz, Piotr, Serguey, Martin, Oscar, Roby…<br />
- GIII/GIV attempt and rescue.<br />
- Nives Meroi, fame for love.<br />
- North Pole-Greenland crossing and polar records. </em></p>
<p>* Previous story on Himalman’s Weblog :</p>
<p>-   <a title="Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Miss Oh and Miss Go, Himalaya Dream Mile." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/best-of-explorersweb-2009-awards-miss-oh-and-miss-go-himalaya-dream-mile/" target="_blank">Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Miss Oh and Miss Go, Himalaya Dream Mile.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: new route on Nanga Parbat." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/best-of-explorersweb-2009-awards-new-route-on-nanga-parbat/" target="_blank">Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: new route on Nanga Parbat.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: the 14×8000ers." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/best-of-explorersweb-2009-awards-the-14x8000ers/" target="_blank">Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: the 14×8000ers.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Altitude Junkies and FTA – corporate compassion." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/best-of-explorersweb-2009-awards-altitude-junkies-and-fta-corporate-compassion/" target="_blank">Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Altitude Junkies and FTA – corporate compassion.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards – Special mention." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/12/27/best-of-explorersweb-2009-awards-special-mention/" target="_blank">Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards – Special mention.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Farewell to friends." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/12/16/explorersweb-year-2009-in-review-farewell-to-friends/" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Farewell to friends.</a></p>
<p>-   <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=18925" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Polar adventures</a>.</p>
<p>-   <a title="ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Significant climbs." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/12/19/explorersweb-year-2009-in-review-significant-climbs/">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Significant climbs.</a></p>
<p>-   <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=18927" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: The Oceans</a>.</p>
<p>-   <a title="ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Mount Everest." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/12/21/explorersweb-year-2009-in-review-mount-everest/" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Mount Everest.</a></p>
<p>-   <a title="ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Controversies." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/12/27/2009/12/22/explorersweb-year-2009-in-review-controversies/" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Controversies.</a></p>
<p>-   <a href="http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=18924" target="_blank">ExplorersWeb Year 2009 in Review: Technology and Space</a>.</p>
<p>-   <a title="Tragedy in the Himalaya, 2009 climbing season." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/2009/07/14/tragedy-in-the-himalaya-2009-climbing-season/">Tragedy in the Himalaya, 2009 climbing season.</a></p>
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		<title>Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 /Version english and polish/.</title>
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Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 (8611m) led by Krzysztof Wielicki, Poland’s most accomplished Himalayan climber and conqueror of 14 “eight-thousanders”.The expedition has broken the altitude record that man has ever achieved in winter on K2 (Chogori)During the expedition as a base camp tent was used Marabut’s tent – K2
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<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 (8611m) led by <a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/05/krzysztof-wielicki-one-of-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Krzysztof Wielicki</a>, Poland’s most accomplished <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/himalayan?nafid=22">Himalayan</a> climber and conqueror of 14 “<a title="eight-thousanders" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander" target="_blank">eight-thousanders</a>”.The expedition has broken the altitude record that man has ever achieved in winter on <a title="K2" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2" target="_blank">K2 (Chogori)</a>During the expedition as a base camp tent was used Marabut’s tent – <a href="http://www.iglootent.com/index.php?action=dynamic,expedition_tents,1,0">K2</a></strong></p>
<p>K2 is considered the ultimate climb. It is located in <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/karakoram?nafid=22">Karakoram</a>, on the border of China and Pakistan near the Silk Route. The history of its exploration is long and dramatic. Until today only almost 200 people reached the summit, but none of them in wintertime. Poles achieved much in the struggle with this mountain during summer. Our climbers led or marked out four routes there. The first Pole, and at the same time the first woman to climb the K2 summit was <a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/12/wanda-rutkiewicz-%E2%80%93-national-treasure-of-poland-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Wanda Rutkiewicz</a>.</p>
<p>K2 will be climbed from the northern side. The current leader of the expedition <a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/05/krzysztof-wielicki-one-of-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> successfully ascented the mountain in the summer of 1996.</p>
<p>Only 8 out of 14 highest peaks over 8000m were climbed in the winter. Poles were the first to climb them all and are still continuing the idea of the Polish Program of Winter Exploration of the Himalayas and Karakoram. Himalaism still remains a high-class sports challenge.</p>
<p>The current expedition is a tribute to Andrzej Zawada, a creator of the idea of climbing the <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-highest-mountains?nafid=22">highest mountains</a> in the winter.</p>
<p>The leader of the expedition Krzysztof Wielicki is the fifth person to climb all 14 highest mountains in the world. Three of them (including <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/mount-everest?nafid=22">Mount Everest</a>) he climbed first, alone and taking new routes and in the winter.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" style="width: 400px;height: 265px" src="http://www.iglootent.com/foto/wyprawy_k2.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="bottom" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" style="width: 400px;height: 265px" src="http://www.iglootent.com/foto/wyprawy_k2_3.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="bottom" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" style="width: 400px;height: 265px" src="http://www.iglootent.com/foto/wyprawy_k2_4.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="bottom" /></p>
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<p>K2, otherwise known as <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/k2?nafid=22">Chogori</a>, is the world’s second highest peak after Mount Everest, extending to a height of 8611 m above sea level. It is located in the Baltoro Mustagh Range situated within the Karakoram Region that lies along the border between China and India. K2 is perceived as the world’s most difficult mountain to climb.</p>
<p>The vast <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/baltoro-glacier?nafid=22">Baltoro Glacier</a> slowly flows down its slopes. An Italian team was the first to ascend to the peak of K2, doing so on July 31, 1954. Since then, no more than 200 climbers have reached the acme. One out of every seven of them have perished on the mountain’s slopes.</p>
<p>The first woman to stand atop K2 was Wanda Rutkiewicz. No one has yet succeeded in scaling the peak in winter. Extreme weather conditions reign in the region around K2. In winter the temperature descends to negative 45 degrees Celsius, while wind speeds reach as much as 200 kilometers per hour.</p>
<p>The last attempt at conquering the peak in winter, undertaken by a team lead by Krzysztof Wielicki, also ended in failure. The expedition began on December 16, 2002 and ended on February 28, 2003. Immediately after his return to Poland on March 18, 2003, Krzysztof Wielicki stated, “The mission of ascending the peak has not ended, but rather been suspended. I will not give any dates, but I assure you that I will return to K2. One does not combat a mountain, one struggles against adversities. These adversities include snow, hurricane winds, and exhaustion.”The Polish expedition arrived at an altitude of 7700 meters before suspending the ascent.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/trasa_na_szczyt-k2.jpg?w=400&amp;h=414" alt="" width="400" height="414" align="middle" /></p>
<h3>more : <a href="http://netiak2.pl/o_wyprawie.html" target="_blank">Netia K2 Polska Wyprwa Zimowa</a></h3>
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<h3><span>Pierwsze wejścia</span> :</h3>
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<tr style="background-color: #efefef">
<th>L.p.</th>
<th>Nazwa</th>
<th>Wysokość <span>m</span> <span>n.p.m.</span></th>
<th>Data zdobycia</th>
<th>Pierwsi zdobywcy</th>
<th>Data zdobycia winter</th>
<th>Pierwsi zdobywcy winter</th>
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<td>1</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Mount Everest" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest">Mount Everest</a></td>
<td><span>ok. 8850</span></td>
<td><span>29 maja</span> <span>1953</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Edmund Hillary" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a> (<a title="Nowa Zelandia" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowa_Zelandia">Nowa Zelandia</a>),<a title="Tenzing Norgay" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay">Norgay Tenzing</a> (<a title="Nepal" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal">Nepal</a>)</td>
<td><span>17 lutego</span> <span>1980</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> i<a title="Leszek Cichy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Cichy">Leszek Cichy</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td align="left"><a title="K2" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2">K2</a></td>
<td>8611</td>
<td><span>31 lipca</span> <span>1954</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Achille Compagnoni" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achille_Compagnoni&amp;action=edit">Achille Compagnoni</a> i<a title="Lino Lacedelli" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lino_Lacedelli&amp;action=edit">Lino Lacedelli</a> (<span>Włochy</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
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<td>3</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Kanczendzonga" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanczendzonga">Kanczendzonga</a></td>
<td>8586</td>
<td><span>25 maja</span> <span>1955</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="George Band" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Band&amp;action=edit">George Band</a> i<a title="Joe Brown" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Brown&amp;action=edit">Joe Brown</a> (<span>Anglia</span>)</td>
<td><span>11 stycznia</span> <span>1986</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> i<a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
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<td>4</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Lhotse" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhotse">Lhotse</a></td>
<td>8516</td>
<td><span>18 maja</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Fritz Luchsinger" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Luchsinger&amp;action=edit">Fritz Luchsinger</a> i<a title="Ernst Reiss" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst_Reiss&amp;action=edit">Ernst Reiss</a> (<span>Szwajcaria</span>)</td>
<td><span>31 grudnia</span> <span>1988</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> (Polska)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Makalu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makalu">Makalu</a></td>
<td>8463</td>
<td><span>15 maja</span> <span>1955</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Lionel Terray" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Terray">Lionel Terray</a> i<a title="Jean Couzy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Couzy&amp;action=edit">Jean Couzy</a> (<span>Francja</span>)</td>
<td>9 lutego 2009</td>
<td align="left">
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<td></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Simone Moro" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Moro">Simone Moro</a> (Włochy) i <a title="Denis Urubko" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Urubko">Denis Urubko</a> (Kazachstan)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Cho Oyu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Oyu">Cho Oyu</a></td>
<td>8201</td>
<td><span>19 pa</span><span>ździernika</span> <span>1954</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Sepp Joechler" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sepp_Joechler&amp;action=edit">Sepp Joechler</a> i<a title="Herbert Tichy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Tichy&amp;action=edit">Herbert Tichy</a> (<span>Austria</span>),<a title="Psan Dawa Lama" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psan_Dawa_Lama&amp;action=edit">Psan Dawa Lama</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>12 lutego</span> <span>1985</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Maciej Berbeka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Berbeka">Maciej Berbeka</a> i<a title="Maciej Pawlikowski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Pawlikowski">Maciej Pawlikowski</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Dhaulagiri" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaulagiri">Dhaulagiri</a></td>
<td>8167</td>
<td><span>13 maja</span> <span>1960</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Kurt Diemberger" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diemberger">Kurt Diemberger</a> i<a title="Albin Schelbert" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albin_Schelbert&amp;action=edit">Albin Schelbert</a> (Austria),<a title="Nawang Dorje" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nawang_Dorje&amp;action=edit">Nawang Dorje</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>21 stycznia</span> <span>1985</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Andrzej Czok" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Czok">Andrzej Czok</a> i<a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Manaslu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu">Manaslu</a></td>
<td>8156</td>
<td><span>9 maja</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Toshio Imanishi" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toshio_Imanishi&amp;action=edit">Toshio Imanishi</a> (<span>Japonia</span>),<a title="Gyaltsen Norbu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gyaltsen_Norbu&amp;action=edit">Gyaltsen Norbu</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>12 stycznia</span> <span>1984</span></td>
<td align="left">Maciej Berbeka i<a title="Ryszard Gajewski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Gajewski">Ryszard Gajewski</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Nanga Parbat" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanga_Parbat">Nanga Parbat</a></td>
<td>8126</td>
<td><span>3 lipca</span> <span>1953</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Hermann Buhl" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Buhl&amp;action=edit">Hermann Buhl</a> (Austria)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Annapurna" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna">Annapurna</a> I</td>
<td>8091</td>
<td><span>3 czerwca</span> <span>1950</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Maurice Herzog" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Herzog">Maurice Herzog</a> i<a title="Louis Lachenal" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Lachenal&amp;action=edit">Louis Lachenal</a> (<span>Francja</span>)</td>
<td><span>3 lutego</span> <span>1987</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Artur Hajzer" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Hajzer">Artur Hajzer</a> i<a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Gasherbrum I" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_I">Gasherbrum I</a></td>
<td>8068</td>
<td><span>4 lipca</span> <span>1958</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Andy Kauffman" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Kauffman&amp;action=edit">Andy Kauffman</a> i<a title="Pete Schoening" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete_Schoening&amp;action=edit">Pete Schoening</a> (<span>USA</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Broad Peak" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Peak">Broad Peak</a></td>
<td>8047</td>
<td><span>9 czerwca</span> <span>1957</span></td>
<td align="left">Hermann Buhl,Kurt Diemberger,<a title="Markus Schmuck" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Markus_Schmuck&amp;action=edit">Markus Schmuck</a> i<a title="Fritz Wintersteller" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Wintersteller&amp;action=edit">Fritz Wintersteller</a> (<span>Austria</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Gasherbrum II" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_II">Gasherbrum II</a></td>
<td>8035</td>
<td><span>7 lipca</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Sepp Larch" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sepp_Larch&amp;action=edit">Sepp Larch</a>,<a title="Fritz Moravec" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Moravec&amp;action=edit">Fritz Moravec</a> i<a title="Hans Willenpart" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Willenpart&amp;action=edit">Hans Willenpart</a> (<span>Austria</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Shisha Pangma" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisha_Pangma">Shisha Pangma</a></td>
<td>8013</td>
<td><span>2 maja</span> <span>1964</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Hsu Ching" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hsu_Ching&amp;action=edit">Hsu Ching</a> (Chiny)</td>
<td><span>14 stycznia</span> <span>2005</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Piotr Morawski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Morawski">Piotr Morawski</a> (<span>Polska</span>) i<a title="Simone Moro" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Moro">Simone Moro</a> (<span>Włochy)</span></td>
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</table>
<p><strong>Netia K2 – Polish Winter Expedition (2003/2004)</strong></p>
<p>18 marca 2003r. wróciła do Polski zimowa wyprawa na drugi szczyt Ziemi – <a href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2" target="_blank">K2 – zwany tez Czogori</a>(8611 m), starająca się zdobyć szczyt od północnej, chińskiej strony. Jej kierownikiem z ramienia Polskiego Związku Alpinizmu był <a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/krzysztof-wielicki-version-polish-and-english/">Krzysztof Wielicki</a>, jeden z najwybitniejszych himalaistów na świecie.</p>
<p>K2 jest najtrudniejszym do zdobycia ośmiotysięcznikiem. Leży w paśmie <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/karakorum?nafid=22">Karakorum</a> na granicy Chin i Pakistanu w pobliżu antycznego Jedwabnego Szlaku. Historia jego eksploracji jest długa i dramatyczna. Do dzisiaj na jego wierzchołku stanęło niespełna 200 osób. W zimie nie udało się to jeszcze nikomu.</p>
<p>Polacy mają wiele osiągnięć na tej górze w letnich sezonach. Nasi alpiniści poprowadzili lub wytyczyli na niej cztery drogi. Pierwszym Polakiem, a zarazem pierwszą kobietą na szczycie K2 była <a title="Wanda Rutkiewicz" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/wanda-rutkiewicz-skarb-narodowy/" target="_blank">Wanda Rutkiewicz</a>. Góra gór jednak nie zawsze była łaskawa. Latem 1986 roku na zboczach K2 zginęło 13 osób, w tym trójka Polaków.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.lyofood.pl/images/wyp/5ax.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.lyofood.pl/images/wyp/5a.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="450" height="306" /></a></p>
<p>Celem zakończonej wyprawy było zdobycie K2 Filarem Północnym, którym Krzysztof Wielicki wspiął się na wierzchołek latem 1996r. Wierzchołek nie został osiągnięty, a wyprawa zakończona została akcją ratunkową, w której uratowano Marcina Kaczkana. Krzysztof Wielicki wraz z Denisem Urubko nie zdecydowali się rozpocząć ataku szczytowego po raz drugi. Wyprawa zakończyła się jednak sukcesem. Himalaiści weszli na wysokość prawie 7700m. Obóz IV postawili na wysokości 7630m. Tak wysoko zimą nikt jeszcze tam nie był. Uratowali również życie swojemu koledze, przedkładając ludzkie życie i partnerstwo nad celem wyprawy.</p>
<p>Z Korony Himalajów – 14 szczytów ośmiotysięcznych naszej planety, tylko 8 zostało pokonanych zimą. Pierwsze 7 wejść zimowych należy do Polaków, którzy konsekwentnie starają się realizować Polski Program Zimowej Eksploracji Himalajów i Karakorum – w dobie komercjalizacji wspinaczki wysokogórskiej pozostający wyzwaniem sportowym najwyższej próby. Wejście 8-me to <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/shishapangma?nafid=22">Shisha Pangma</a> , rok 2005 , i zdobywcą też był Polak Piotr Morawski , ale dokonał tego wraz z Włochem Simone Maro , jak dotąd jedyny himalaista nie będący Polakiem , który zdobył zimą ośmiotysięcznik. Zobacz post : <a title="Polish - Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/polish-italian-winter-expedition-to-shisha-pangma-8027m-2005-version-polish-and-english/" target="_blank">Polish – Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma</a> .</p>
<p>Wyprawa na K2 poświęcona była pamięci <strong>Andrzeja Zawady</strong>, twórcy idei zmierzenia się z najwyższymi szczytami świata zimą. Kierownik ekspedycji, <strong>Krzysztof  Wielicki</strong> jest piątym człowiekiem, który zdobył Koronę Himalajów, 14 ośmiotysięczników. <strong>Na trzy z nich (w tym na Mount Everest), wszedł zimą jako pierwszy</strong>. Wspinał się na nie także samotnie, w stylu alpejskim i nowymi drogami. Zimowe K2 od lat jest dla niego największym wyzwaniem, dlatego już teraz zapowiada, że tam wróci.W swoim przyszłym składzie widzi młodych himalaistów, którzy doskonale spisali się podczas tej wyprawy.</p>
<p>Próbą zimowego podboju K2 od strony północnej, alpiniści zakończyli ogłoszony przez Organizację Narodów Zjednoczonych Międzynarodowy Rok Gór.</p>
<p>więcej informacji o tej wyprawie : <a href="http://netiak2.pl/o_wyprawie.html" target="_blank">Netia K2 Polska Wyprwa Zimowa</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.goryonline.com/" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0 none" src="http://www.goryonline.com/banery/gory.gif" alt="goryonline.com" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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&#8220;Mountains are beyond good and evil&#8221; &#8211; Freidrich Nietzsche.
The unprecedented feats in the highest mountains would sometimes claim the lives of the expedition members. Many outstanding mountaineers remained in the mountains forever &#8211; unfortunately the list of souls asking for prayer is not limited to Wanda Rutkiewicz and Jerzy Kukuczka. It includes climbers [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Mountains are beyond good and evil&#8221; &#8211; Freidrich Nietzsche.</p>
<p>The unprecedented feats in the highest mountains would sometimes claim the lives of the expedition members. Many outstanding mountaineers remained in the mountains forever &#8211; unfortunately the list of souls asking for prayer is not limited to Wanda Rutkiewicz and Jerzy Kukuczka. It includes climbers less known to the general public, but no less talented, such as Wojciech Wróż and Andrzej Czok.</p>
<p>There are also those who were just beginning to knock on fame&#8217;s door or who came to the mountains for slightly different reasons, for instance Staszek Latało, an excellent camera operator and documentary director, who died making a film about one of the Polish expeditions.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000">Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers in Himalayas on Mt. Everest &#8211; Mount Everest Expedition 1989</span>. <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-102" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2009/11/Polish-Himalayas-–-The-Great-Tragedies.jpg" alt="Polish Himalayas – The Great Tragedies" width="247" height="184" /></p>
<p>Previously, the worst single accident on Mount Everest had occurred in 1989, when five Polish climbers died in an avalanche. On May 27, 1989 died in avalanche on Lho La  : Mirosław Falco-Dąsal, Mirosław Gardzielewski, Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich and Andrzej Otręba. Eugeniusza Chrobaka who has survived in avalanche died next day on Lho La. He and Andrzej Marciniak successfully summitted Mount Everest on May 24, 1989.</p>
<p>The first four volumes of &#8220;The Polish Himalayas&#8221; present an overview of the mountaineering ventures. In the fifth volume Janusz &#8220;Jano&#8221; Kurczab touches upon the most difficult aspect of climbing &#8211; death in the mountains. Death, which often strips climbing of all its romanticism. Death, which sometimes is a result of heroism, but can often be caused by simple mistakes, lack of professionalism of the climber or expedition leader, or just bad luck, which can be deadly in the highest mountains.</p>
<p>Apart from the accounts of the greatest Himalayan tragedies the author describes the expeditions that came back with fewer members than they set out with. This concise and therefore all the more moving story will no doubt cause us to ask ourselves once again why people climb mountains.</p>
<p>The film included in the package is even more moving, on account of the force of the image. Neither the book nor the film, however, provide us with an answer why climbers set out into the mountains, often only to encounter death. No climber has given the answer so far, though many have tried. Each of us is left alone with the question, to which the answer is the decision whether to go up or stay down.</p>
<p>*book in Polish, film in Polish with English subtitles<br />
Where to buy:<br />
Publisher: Agora SA<br />
Bibioteka Gazety Wyborczej<br />
available in kiosks or online at:<br />
www.kulturalnysklep.pl<br />
and<br />
himal@himal.com.pl</p>
<p>* see : – <a href="http://www.polishhimalayas.com/" target="_blank">http://www.polishhimalayas.com/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">- <a title="Everest za cenę życia – Mount Everest Expedition 1989. Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009/05/26/everest-za-cene-zycia-mount-everest-expedition-1989/">Everest za cenę życia – Mount Everest Expedition 1989. Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">- <a title="Breaking news: Piotr Morawski lost on Dhaulagiri. Piotr Morawski zginął na Dhaulagiri. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009/04/08/breaking-news-piotr-morawski-lost-on-dhaulagiri-piotr-morawski-zginal-na-dhaulagiri-version-english-and-polish/">Breaking news: Piotr Morawski lost on Dhaulagiri. Piotr Morawski zginął na Dhaulagiri. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>* Previous story :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/16/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-great-climbing-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – Women in the Mountains. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-women-in-the-mountains-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – Women in the Mountains. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>* Source : – <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/">http://himalman.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Polskie Himalaje – Największe tragedie</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Góry są poza dobrem i złem&#8221; &#8211; Fryderyk Nietzsche.</p>
<p>Za bezprecedensowe sukcesy w górach najwyższych, polskie wyprawy płaciły cenę najwyższą. W Himalajach zostało bardzo wielu wybitnych wspinaczy, niestety zaduszkowa lista proszących o modlitwę nie kończy się na Wandzie Rutkiewicz i Jerzym Kukuczce.</p>
<p>Sa na niej wspinacze mniej znani przeciętnym Polakom, ale równie utalentowani jak Wojciech Wróż, czy Andrzej Czok. Jak też tacy, którzy dopiero pukali do elity lub w górach znaleźli się po części z innych powodów &#8211; jak choćby Staszek Latało, wybitny kamerzysta, reżyser dokumentalista, który zginął realizując film z jednej z polskich wypraw.</p>
<p><a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/everest-za-cene-zycia-mount-everest-expedition-1989/" target="_blank">Największa tragedia w Himalajach to tragedii na Lho La</a>, podczas wyprawy &#8211; Mount Everest Expedition 1989. Eugeniusz Chrobak i Andrzej Marciniak zdobyli Everest 24 maja 1989 r tzw zachodnią drogą, zwaną też jugosłowiańską. Tragedia rozegrała się w drodze powrotnej gdy wydawało się, ze już są bezpieczni. 27 maja 1989 r w lawinie na Lho La zgineli : Mirosław Falco-Dąsal, Mirosław Gardzielewski, Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich and Andrzej Otręba. Zdobywca Everestu Eugeniusz Chrobak zmarł następnego dnia. Tylko Marciniak uratował się z tamtej tragedii.</p>
<p>Rok 2009 zapisze się jako jeden z najczarniejszych w historii polskiego himalaizmu. Już na początku sezonu wspinaczkowego, podczas międzynarodowej wyprawy Dhaulagiri/Manaslu 2009, spadł w 25-metrową szczelinę i zaklinował się na 20 metrze – Piotr Morawski.  <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/breaking-news-piotr-morawski-lost-on-dhaulagiri-piotr-morawski-zginal-na-dhaulagiri-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Wypadek miał miejsce 08.04 2009 na Dhaulagiri</a>, podczas wyjścia aklimatyzacyjnego (przygotowującego organizm do przebywania do wysokości) na wysokości ok. 5500 metrów.</p>
<p>W dniu 7 sierpnia 2009, podczas wspinaczki na Pośredniej Grani w Tatrach Słowackich, <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/andrzej-marciniak-zdobywca-everestu-zginal-w-tatrach/" target="_blank">śmierć poniósł czołowy polski himalaista Andrzej Marciniak</a>. Himalaista wspinał się wraz z dwójką kolegów na “trójkowej” drodze Szczepańskich na Pośredniej Grani w Tatrach słowackich. Po pokonaniu około 10 metrów odpadł od ściany, a wraz z nim blok skalny, który go przygniótł.</p>
<p>Cztery pierwsze tomy Polskich Himalajów były próbą usystematyzowania dokonań. W tomie V autor Janusz &#8220;Jano&#8221; Kurczab dotyka najtrudniejszego &#8211; śmierci w górach. Śmierci, która często odziera wspinaczkę z romantyzmu. Śmierci, która czasami jest wynikiem heroicznej postawy, ale często też spowodowana jest prostymi błędami, brakiem profesjonalizmu himalaisty, czy kierownika wyprawy, czy też bierze się z braku szczęścia , które w najwyższych górach nie może nas opuścić ani na chwilę.</p>
<p>Na tło największych himalajskich tragedii nakłada autor opis tych polskich wypraw, które wracały do kraju w składzie mniejszym niż wyruszały. Tak skondensowana i przez to jeszcze mocniej poruszająca relacja sprawia, że po raz kolejny u wielu czytających zrodzi się pytanie, po co ludzie idą w góry.</p>
<p>Równie, a może i bardziej z racji siły obrazu, poruszajacy jest dołaczony do książki film. Jednak ani książka ani film nie dają prostej odpowiedzi dlaczego ludzie idą w góry, często po śmierć. Nie dał jej żaden wspinacz choć wielu starało się być błyskotliwymi. Z tym pytaniem każdy zostaje sam, a odpowiedzią jest decyzja &#8211; ruszam w góry czy zostajemy.</p>
<p>* zobacz :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/2009/10/16/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-great-climbing-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – Women in the Mountains. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/28/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-women-in-the-mountains-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – Women in the Mountains. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">- <a title="Everest za cenę życia – Mount Everest Expedition 1989. Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009/05/26/everest-za-cene-zycia-mount-everest-expedition-1989/">Everest za cenę życia – Mount Everest Expedition 1989. Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers.</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Breaking news: Piotr Morawski lost on Dhaulagiri. Piotr Morawski zginął na Dhaulagiri. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009/04/08/breaking-news-piotr-morawski-lost-on-dhaulagiri-piotr-morawski-zginal-na-dhaulagiri-version-english-and-polish/">Breaking news: Piotr Morawski lost on Dhaulagiri. Piotr Morawski zginął na Dhaulagiri. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.goryonline.com/" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none" src="http://www.goryonline.com/banery/gory.gif" alt="goryonline.com" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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&#8220;The good Lord helped us both climb to great heights on the same day&#8221; - this is the most famous quotation related to Polish Himalayan climbing and it moves us now as much as ever, or perhaps even more, since both of the interlocutors are no longer with us.
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<p>&#8220;<span style="color: #ff0000">The good Lord helped us both climb to great heights on the same day</span>&#8221; -<a href="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/rutkiewicz-e28093-summit-everest.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/rutkiewicz-e28093-summit-everest.jpg?w=318&amp;h=439" alt="Rutkiewicz – Summit Everest" width="240" height="331" /></a> this is the most famous quotation related to Polish Himalayan climbing and it moves us now as much as ever, or perhaps even more, since both of the interlocutors are no longer with us.</p>
<p>The words were spoken by the pope John Paul II to <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/wanda-rutkiewicz-skarb-narodowy/" target="_blank">Wanda Rutkiewicz</a> on the 10th of June 1979, during his first pilgrimage to Poland. He was referring to the amazing day of the 16th of October 1978, which was of utmost importance for both of them.</p>
<p>When the white smoke over St. Peter&#8217;s Square let the Catholic world know it had a new pope, the pope&#8217;s compatriot from a faraway country was standing on the Earth&#8217;s tallest summit, Mount Everest, as the third woman and first European woman in history.</p>
<p>This event, by many referred to as a miracle, was at the same time a strong affirmation of the phenomenon created by Polish women climbers: women&#8217;s mountaineering.</p>
<p>*book in Polish, film in Polish with English subtitles<br />
Where to buy:<br />
Publisher: Agora SA<br />
Bibioteka Gazety Wyborczej<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-94" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2009/10/Polish-Himalayas-–-Women-in-the-Mountains.jpg" alt="Polish Himalayas – Women in the Mountains" width="250" height="184" /><br />
available in kiosks or online at:<br />
www.kulturalnysklep.pl<br />
and<br />
himal@himal.com.pl</p>
<p>* see : – <a href="http://www.polishhimalayas.com/" target="_blank">http://www.polishhimalayas.com/</a></p>
<p>* Previous story :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/16/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-great-climbing-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>* Source : – <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/">http://himalman.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Polskie Himalaje – Panie w górach</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pza.org.pl/news.acs?id=315380" target="_blank">Film zajął 1 miejsce w kategorii filmów górskich na 5th INKAFEST Mountain Film 2009 Huaraz &#8211; Peru</a></p>
<p>&#8220;<span style="color: #ff0000">Dobry Bóg sprawił, że nam obojgu, tego samego dnia, udało się wejść tak wysoko</span>&#8221; &#8211; ten najsłynniejszy cytat w historii polskiego himalaizmu wzrusza do dziś równie mocno, a może i mocniej niż kiedyś, gdyż obydwojga rozmówców nie ma już tu na ziemi.</p>
<p>Słowa te wypowiedział 10 czerwca 1979 roku, podczas pierwszej pielgrzymki do ojczyzny Jan Paweł II do wzruszonej <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/wanda-rutkiewicz-skarb-narodowy/" target="_blank">Wandy Rutkiewicz</a>.</p>
<p>Mówił przypominając niezwykły dla nich obojga dzień 16 października 1978 roku. Wtedy to w chwili, gdy biały dym nad Placem Św Piotra obwieścił, że świat ma nowego papieża z dalekiego kraju, jego rodaczka jako pierwsza europejka i trzecia kobieta na świecie stawała na czubku świata &#8211; Mount Evereście.</p>
<p>To wydarzenie, które wielu nazywało cudem było równocześnie całkiem realnym i mocnym przypieczętowaniem fenomenu jaki wykreowały polskie taterniczki &#8211; himalizmu kobiecego.</p>
<p>* zobacz :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/16/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-great-climbing-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left">** zapraszam na relacje z  wypraw polskich himalaistów.</p>
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The Himalayas by the Fingertips.
A story of extreme climbing always sounds a bit like a fairy tale. As the altitude grows and the difficulties pile up, the eyes of the listeners open wider and wider. Some of them accept the account at face-value, others refuse to believe it, assuming the story-teller is telling [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>The Himalayas by the Fingertips</strong>.</p>
<p>A story of extreme climbing always sounds a bit like a fairy tale. As the altitude grows and the difficulties pile up, the eyes of the listeners open wider and wider. Some of them accept the account at face-value, others refuse to believe it, assuming the story-teller is telling stories. <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-89" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2009/10/Polish-Himalayas-–-The-Great-Climbing.jpg" alt="Polish Himalayas – The Great Climbing" width="250" height="189" /></p>
<p>Not than you can blame them &#8211; it does take some imagination to picture somebody climbing mountain faces many kilometers high, going up steps no bigger than a bottle top, with holds only large enough for fingertips. And all these acrobatics at an altitude so high that the extreme thinness of the air tears the struggling lungs apart.</p>
<p>The above is, however, no exaggeration. It is just as accurate as the account of the express ascent: 20 hours up an eight-thousand meter summit and back to base camp (<span style="color: #ff0000"><a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/05/krzysztof-wielicki-one-of-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> &#8211; Broad Peak (1984) – normal route, the first ever ascent on a summit of 8000 meter peak in one day (16 hours up, 6 hours down), solo</span>). Such extreme feats are part of sports climbing, a type of climbing reserved exclusively for the best &#8211; it is climbing by the fingertips.</p>
<p>*book in Polish, film in Polish with English subtitles<br />
Where to buy:<br />
Publisher: Agora SA<br />
Bibioteka Gazety Wyborczej<br />
available in kiosks or online at:<br />
www.kulturalnysklep.pl<br />
and<br />
himal@himal.com.pl</p>
<p>* see : – <a href="http://www.polishhimalayas.com/" target="_blank">http://www.polishhimalayas.com/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/ice-warriors-not-give-up-himountain-winter-expedition-to-broad-peak-200809-himountain-wyprawa-zimowa-broad-peak-%e2%80%94-200809-version-english-and-polish/">Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/winter-manifesto-of-krzysztof-wielicki-manifest-zimowy-krzysztofa-wielickiego-version-polish-and-english/">Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/2008/01/02/polish-winter-expedition-to-k2-20023-version-polish-and-english/">Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Polish-Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma (8027m), 2005 /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/2007/12/29/polish-italian-winter-expedition-to-shisha-pangma-8027m-2005-version-polish-and-english/">Polish-Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma (8027m), 2005 /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>* Previous story :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>* Source : – <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/">http://himalman.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Polskie Himalaje – Wielkie wspinaczki</strong>.</p>
<p>W Himalajach na koniuszkach palców.</p>
<p>Opowieść o ekstremalnych wspinaczkach brzmi zawsze trochę jak bajka. W miarę zdobywanych metrów, w miarę rosnących trudności oczy słuchających otwierają się szerzej i szerzej. Jedni przyjmują opowieści na wiarę inni tracą zaufanie uznając, że opowiadający zalicza się do wielkiej grupy gawędziarzy-mitomanów.</p>
<p>Trudno się w sumie dziwić, wielkiej bowiem wyobraźni trzeba by uwierzyć we wspinaczkę kilometrowymi ścianami po stopniach nie większych niż kapsle od butelek, po chwytach na koniuszki palców, gdy na dodatek ekwilibrystyka odbywa się na wysokości, gdzie powietrze jest rzadkie tak, że najmniejszy wysiłek rozrywa płuca walczące.</p>
<p>A jednak, nie ma tu słowa przesady tak jak prawdziwą jest opowieść o wejściu, lub lepiej powiedzieć wbiegnięciu, w 20 godzin na ośmiotysięcznik i powrót do bazy, dokonał tego <a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/05/krzysztof-wielicki-one-of-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Krzysztof  Wielicki</a> zdobywając w 1984r Broad Peak (8048m) – I wejście na ośmiotysięcznik i powrót do bazy w jedną dobę (21,5 h), wejście solo. Tego typu ekstremalne wyczyny zalicza się do sportowego himalaizmu, himalaizmu dla wąskiej grupy mistrzów, himalaizmu na koniuszkach palców.</p>
<p>* zobacz :</p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/14/polish-himalayas-%e2%80%93-the-ice-warriors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Permanent Link to Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/10/13/polish-himalayas-the-first-conquerors-version-english-and-polish/">Polish Himalayas – The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.fundacjakukuczki.pl/" target="_blank"><img src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/baner-funda-kukuczki-_468.jpg" border="0" alt="" height="40" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.goryonline.com/" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none" src="http://www.goryonline.com/banery/gory.gif" alt="goryonline.com" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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<p>** zapraszam na relacje z  wypraw polskich himalaistów.</p>
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Poles in the Himalayas in Winter.
The 17th of January 1980 was one of those days in the history of the world when humankind  managed to break another barrier, to push back the boundaries of the impossible yet again &#8211; using skill, intelligence and determination. Throughout the centuries there have been many such days [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Poles in the Himalayas in Winter</strong>.</p>
<p>The 17th of January 1980 was one of those days in the history of the world when humankind  managed to break another barrier, to push back the boundaries of the impossible yet again &#8211; using skill, intelligence and determination. Throughout the centuries there have been many such days for science, art, sport or the exploration of the globe. On the 17th of January two Poles, Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki, joined the exclusive club of the discoverers of the undiscovered, the explorers of the unexplored, the conquerors of the unconquered. They became the first people in the world to stand on the summit of an eight-thousander in winter &#8211; and it was the highest of them all, Mount Everest.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-80" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2009/10/Polish-Himalayas-–-The-Ice-Warriors.jpg" alt="Polish Himalayas – The Ice Warriors" width="250" height="188" /></p>
<p>In the years that followed Polish expeditions went into the Himalayas one after another, sometimes they were successful, sometimes not; but if anybody climbed an eight-thousander in winter, it could only be the Poles. So far they have eight of them to their name &#8211; they are true Ice Warriors.</p>
<p>*book in Polish, film in Polish with English subtitles<br />
Where to buy:<br />
Publisher: Agora SA<br />
Bibioteka Gazety Wyborczej<br />
available in kiosks or online at:<br />
www.kulturalnysklep.pl<br />
and<br />
himal@himal.com.pl</p>
<p>* see : – <a href="http://www.polishhimalayas.com/" target="_blank">http://www.polishhimalayas.com/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/ice-warriors-not-give-up-himountain-winter-expedition-to-broad-peak-200809-himountain-wyprawa-zimowa-broad-peak-%e2%80%94-200809-version-english-and-polish/">Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/winter-manifesto-of-krzysztof-wielicki-manifest-zimowy-krzysztofa-wielickiego-version-polish-and-english/">Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/2008/01/02/polish-winter-expedition-to-k2-20023-version-polish-and-english/">Polish winter expedition to K2, 2002/3 /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Polish-Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma (8027m), 2005 /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/2007/12/29/polish-italian-winter-expedition-to-shisha-pangma-8027m-2005-version-polish-and-english/">Polish-Italian winter expedition to Shisha Pangma (8027m), 2005 /Version polish and english/</a></p>
<p>* Source : – <a href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/">http://himalman.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<h3><span>Pierwsze wejścia</span> :</h3>
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<th>L.p.</th>
<th>Nazwa</th>
<th>Wysokość<br />
<span>m</span> <span>n.p.m.</span></th>
<th>Data zdobycia</th>
<th>Pierwsi zdobywcy</th>
<th>Data zdobycia winter</th>
<th>Pierwsi zdobywcy winter</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Mount Everest" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest">Mount Everest</a></td>
<td><span>ok. 8850</span></td>
<td><span>29 maja</span> <span>1953</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Edmund Hillary" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a> (<a title="Nowa Zelandia" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowa_Zelandia">Nowa Zelandia</a>),<br />
<a title="Tenzing Norgay" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay">Norgay Tenzing</a> (<a title="Nepal" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal">Nepal</a>)</td>
<td><span>17 lutego</span> <span>1980</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> i<br />
<a title="Leszek Cichy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Cichy">Leszek Cichy</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td align="left"><a title="K2" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2">K2</a></td>
<td>8611</td>
<td><span>31 lipca</span> <span>1954</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Achille Compagnoni" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achille_Compagnoni&amp;action=edit">Achille Compagnoni</a> i<br />
<a title="Lino Lacedelli" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lino_Lacedelli&amp;action=edit">Lino Lacedelli</a> (<span>Włochy</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Kanczendzonga" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanczendzonga">Kanczendzonga</a></td>
<td>8586</td>
<td><span>25 maja</span> <span>1955</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="George Band" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Band&amp;action=edit">George Band</a> i<br />
<a title="Joe Brown" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Brown&amp;action=edit">Joe Brown</a> (<span>Anglia</span>)</td>
<td><span>11 stycznia</span> <span>1986</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> i<br />
<a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Lhotse" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhotse">Lhotse</a></td>
<td>8516</td>
<td><span>18 maja</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Fritz Luchsinger" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Luchsinger&amp;action=edit">Fritz Luchsinger</a> i<br />
<a title="Ernst Reiss" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst_Reiss&amp;action=edit">Ernst Reiss</a> (<span>Szwajcaria</span>)</td>
<td><span>31 grudnia</span> <span>1988</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Krzysztof Wielicki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wielicki">Krzysztof Wielicki</a> (Polska)</td>
</tr>
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<td>5</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Makalu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makalu">Makalu</a></td>
<td>8463</td>
<td><span>15 maja</span> <span>1955</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Lionel Terray" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Terray">Lionel Terray</a> i<br />
<a title="Jean Couzy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Couzy&amp;action=edit">Jean Couzy</a> (<span>Francja</span>)</td>
<td>09 lutego 2009</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Simone Moro" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Moro">Simone Moro</a> (<span>Włochy) i</span></p>
<p><a title="Dennis Urubko (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dennis_Urubko&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Dennis Urubko</a> (Kazakhstan)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Cho Oyu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Oyu">Cho Oyu</a></td>
<td>8201</td>
<td><span>19 pa</span><span>ździernika</span> <span>1954</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Sepp Joechler" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sepp_Joechler&amp;action=edit">Sepp Joechler</a> i<br />
<a title="Herbert Tichy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Tichy&amp;action=edit">Herbert Tichy</a> (<span>Austria</span>),<br />
<a title="Psan Dawa Lama" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psan_Dawa_Lama&amp;action=edit">Psan Dawa Lama</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>12 lutego</span> <span>1985</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Maciej Berbeka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Berbeka">Maciej Berbeka</a> i<br />
<a title="Maciej Pawlikowski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Pawlikowski">Maciej Pawlikowski</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
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<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Dhaulagiri" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaulagiri">Dhaulagiri</a></td>
<td>8167</td>
<td><span>13 maja</span> <span>1960</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Kurt Diemberger" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diemberger">Kurt Diemberger</a> i<br />
<a title="Albin Schelbert" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albin_Schelbert&amp;action=edit">Albin Schelbert</a> (Austria),<br />
<a title="Nawang Dorje" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nawang_Dorje&amp;action=edit">Nawang Dorje</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>21 stycznia</span> <span>1985</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Andrzej Czok" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Czok">Andrzej Czok</a> i<br />
<a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
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<td>8</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Manaslu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu">Manaslu</a></td>
<td>8156</td>
<td><span>9 maja</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Toshio Imanishi" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toshio_Imanishi&amp;action=edit">Toshio Imanishi</a> (<span>Japonia</span>),<br />
<a title="Gyaltsen Norbu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gyaltsen_Norbu&amp;action=edit">Gyaltsen Norbu</a> (Nepal)</td>
<td><span>12 stycznia</span> <span>1984</span></td>
<td align="left">Maciej Berbeka i<br />
<a title="Ryszard Gajewski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Gajewski">Ryszard Gajewski</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Nanga Parbat" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanga_Parbat">Nanga Parbat</a></td>
<td>8126</td>
<td><span>3 lipca</span> <span>1953</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Hermann Buhl" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Buhl&amp;action=edit">Hermann Buhl</a> (Austria)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
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<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Annapurna" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna">Annapurna</a> I</td>
<td>8091</td>
<td><span>3 czerwca</span> <span>1950</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Maurice Herzog" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Herzog">Maurice Herzog</a> i<br />
<a title="Louis Lachenal" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_Lachenal&amp;action=edit">Louis Lachenal</a> (<span>Francja</span>)</td>
<td><span>3 lutego</span> <span>1987</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Artur Hajzer" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Hajzer">Artur Hajzer</a> i<br />
<a title="Jerzy Kukuczka" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> (<span>Polska</span>)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Gasherbrum I" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_I">Gasherbrum I</a></td>
<td>8068</td>
<td><span>4 lipca</span> <span>1958</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Andy Kauffman" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Kauffman&amp;action=edit">Andy Kauffman</a> i<br />
<a title="Pete Schoening" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete_Schoening&amp;action=edit">Pete Schoening</a> (<span>USA</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
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<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Broad Peak" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Peak">Broad Peak</a></td>
<td>8047</td>
<td><span>9 czerwca</span> <span>1957</span></td>
<td align="left">Hermann Buhl,<br />
Kurt Diemberger,<br />
<a title="Markus Schmuck" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Markus_Schmuck&amp;action=edit">Markus Schmuck</a> i<br />
<a title="Fritz Wintersteller" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Wintersteller&amp;action=edit">Fritz Wintersteller</a> (<span>Austria</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Gasherbrum II" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_II">Gasherbrum II</a></td>
<td>8035</td>
<td><span>7 lipca</span> <span>1956</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Sepp Larch" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sepp_Larch&amp;action=edit">Sepp Larch</a>,<br />
<a title="Fritz Moravec" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fritz_Moravec&amp;action=edit">Fritz Moravec</a> i<br />
<a title="Hans Willenpart" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Willenpart&amp;action=edit">Hans Willenpart</a> (<span>Austria</span>)</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left">niezdobyty zimą</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td align="left"><a title="Shisha Pangma" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisha_Pangma">Shisha Pangma</a></td>
<td>8013</td>
<td><span>2 maja</span> <span>1964</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Hsu Ching" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hsu_Ching&amp;action=edit">Hsu Ching</a> (Chiny)</td>
<td><span>14 stycznia</span> <span>2005</span></td>
<td align="left"><a title="Piotr Morawski" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Morawski">Piotr Morawski</a> (<span>Polska</span>) i<br />
<a title="Simone Moro" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Moro">Simone Moro</a> (<span>Włochy)</span></td>
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<p><strong>Polskie Himalaje – Lodowi wojownicy</strong>.</p>
<p>Polacy w Himalajach Zimą.</p>
<p>17 stycznia 1980 roku to jeden z tych dni w historii świata, w którym człowiek swoim uporem, pasją, zaciętością inteligencją i perfekcją przełamał kolejną barierę, odsunął w dal granicę tego co niewyobrażalne. Od wieków trafiały się takie dni w nauce, sztuce, eksploracji globu, czy w sporcie.</p>
<p>17 stycznia do grona odkrywców tego co nieodkrywalne, zdobywców tego co nie do zdobycia, zwycięzców niepokonanych weszli dwaj Polacy Leszek Cichy i Krzysztof Wielicki. W zimowe popołudnie jako pierwsi ludzie na świecie stanęli na ośmiotysięcznym szczycie i na dodatek na tym najwyższym Mount Evereście.</p>
<p>W kolejnych latach polskie wyprawy ruszały w himalaje jedna za drugą z różnym powodzeniem ale jeśli ktoś zdobywał ośmiotysięcznik zimą to mogli być tylko Polacy &#8211; do dziś skompletowali ich już osiem &#8211; prawdziwi Ice warriors.</p>
<p>* zobacz :</p>
<p>-  <a title="Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/ice-warriors-not-give-up-himountain-winter-expedition-to-broad-peak-200809-himountain-wyprawa-zimowa-broad-peak-%e2%80%94-200809-version-english-and-polish/">Ice Warriors not give up – HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak – 2008/09. HiMountain wyprawa zimowa Broad Peak – 2008/09. /Version english and polish/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/" rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/winter-manifesto-of-krzysztof-wielicki-manifest-zimowy-krzysztofa-wielickiego-version-polish-and-english/">Winter Manifesto of Krzysztof Wielicki – Manifest zimowy Krzysztofa Wielickiego /Version polish and english/</a></p>
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		<title>Polish Himalayas &#8211; The First Conquerors. /Version english and polish/</title>
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The Polish assault on the Himalayas began on the 2nd of July 1939, when a team of four climbers put the white-and-red Polish flag on the virgin summit of Nanda Devi East (7434 meters above sea level).
That is how Poles began the bold charge on Asian seven- and eight-thousanders. They were the first [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Polish assault on the Himalayas began on the 2nd of July 1939, when a team of four climbers put the white-and-red Polish flag on the virgin summit of Nanda Devi East (7434 meters above sea level).<br />
That is how Poles began the bold charge on Asian seven- and eight-thousanders. They were the first to climb many peaks in winter; as for mountains which had already been conquered, Poles plotted out new routes, or climbed without oxygen, or extremely quickly – even in one day.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/2009/10/06/jerzy-kukuczka-one-of-the-famous-polish-climber-version-english-and-polish/" target="_blank">Jerzy Kukuczka</a> lost the race for the first Crown of the Himalayas only “by one pitch”. His female compatriots promoted women’s Himalayan climbing, thus bringing feminism into the mountains.</p>
<p>Polish mountaineers often had to pay the ultimate price for their unique experiences, but they never quit.<br />
“The Polish Himalayas” is a story of how people from the lowland country cut in half by the Vistula took possession of the highest mountains in the world.</p>
<p><strong>The First Conquerors &#8211; The Beginning of an Extraordinary Story</strong>.</p>
<p>Polish Himalayan climbing begins with the mysterious and metaphysical story of Adam Karpiński, Stefan Bernadzikiewicz, Jakub Bujak and Jan Klarner, who were the first to be sent on an expedition into the faraway Himalayas. <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-74" src="http://blogs.zherpa.com/himalman/files/2009/10/Polish-Himalayas-The-First-Conquerors.jpg" alt="Polish Himalayas - The First Conquerors" width="250" height="186" /></p>
<p>Climbing Nanda Devi East (7434 meters above sea level) was a great success, however fate &#8211; or, as some will have it , the cruel goddess of death, Kali, the patron of the mountain &#8211; would not let any of the four mountaineers enjoy the victory for very long.</p>
<p>All of them died soon after: two in an avalanche, two in unexplained circumstances. Their bodies were never found and their graves are only symbolic.</p>
<p>Nanda Devi is a peak with a height of 7434 m above sea level, situated in the north of India. It was first in 1939 by Jakub Bujak and Janusz Klarner who were members of the first ever Polish expedition into the Himalayas.</p>
<p>The mountain is considered to be the most difficult Himalayan summit conquered before World War II. The first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sherp Tenzig Norgay himself once admitted that it was in fact Nanda Devi that he believed was the most challenging mountain he had ever climbed.</p>
<p>That is how the story begins &#8211; as it unravels, things get even more unbelievable, mysterious, intriguing and moving&#8230;</p>
<p>*book in Polish, film in Polish with English subtitles<br />
Where to buy:<br />
Publisher: Agora SA<br />
Bibioteka Gazety Wyborczej<br />
available in kiosks or online at:<br />
www.kulturalnysklep.pl<br />
and<br />
himal@himal.com.pl</p>
<p>* see : – <a href="http://www.polishhimalayas.com/" target="_blank">http://www.polishhimalayas.com/</a></p>
<p>- <a title="Nanda Devi East Expedition 2009 part 1 : Polish to celebrate 70th anniversary of first ascent." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/nanda-devi-east-expedition-2009-part-1-polish-to-celebrate-70th-anniversary-of-first-ascent/">Nanda Devi East Expedition 2009 part 1 : Polish to celebrate 70th anniversary of first ascent.</a></p>
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<p><strong>Polskie Himalaje &#8211; Pierwsi zdobywcy</strong>.</p>
<p>Historii niezwykłej początek.</p>
<p>Historia polskiego himalaizmu zaczyna się od tajemniczej, metafizycznej, niezwykłej historii losów czwórki polskich wspinaczy &#8211; Adama Karpińskiego, Stefana Bernadzikiewicza, Jakuba Bujaka i Jana Klarnera &#8211; których kraj wysłał na pierwsza wyprawę w odległe himalaje.</p>
<p>Wejście na Nanda Devi East (7434 metrów n.p.m.) było wielkim sukcesem, jednak los lub jak niektórzy uważają okrutna bogini śmierci &#8211; Kali patronka tej góry, nie pozwoliła, żadnemu z czwórki śmiałków cieszyć się zwycięstwem do późnej starości. Wszyscy czterej zginęli szybko, dwaj pod lawiną, dwaj kolejni w tajemniczych okolicznościach. Ciał żadnego z czwórki nigdy nie odnaleziono ich groby sa tylko symbolicznymi mogiłami.</p>
<p>To początek historii polskich wspinaczy w himalajach, dalej jest tylko bardziej niezwykle, wzruszająco, tajemniczo i ciekawie.</p>
<p>* zobacz :</p>
<p>- <a title="Nanda Devi East Expedition 2009 part 1 : Polish to celebrate 70th anniversary of first ascent." rel="bookmark" href="http://himalman.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/nanda-devi-east-expedition-2009-part-1-polish-to-celebrate-70th-anniversary-of-first-ascent/">Nanda Devi East Expedition 2009 part 1 : Polish to celebrate 70th anniversary of first ascent.</a></p>
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		<title>Wanda Rutkiewicz – National Treasure of Poland. /Version english and polish/</title>
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<td width="189"><span style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: x-small">Wanda Rutkiewicz (Polish), the third woman to reach the Summit of Everest, is regarded as the greatest woman climber ever. 8 Summits of the 14 <a href="http://www.everestnews.com/8000.htm"> 8000 meter                         peaks.</a> Wanda was born in 1943 in Plungiany (before World War II it was part of Poland, now it is Lithuania). After World War II, she lived in Poland.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;color: #000000;font-size: x-small">She had eight 8000 meter summits before she died on Kangchenjunga somewhere over 8000 meters while attempting via the southwest face route. Kangchenjunga would have been her ninth 8000 meter peak Summit.</span></td>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana;color: #000080;font-size: x-small">Wanda’s                   Summits: <strong>Everest</strong> 10/16/78, The third woman ascent, the                   first European on the top; <strong>Nanga Parbat</strong> 7/15/85, with Krystyna Palmowska and Anna Czerwinska. They became the first women’s team who scaled this peak. (The first woman on Nanga Parbat was one year earlier – Liliane Barrard with her husband Maurice). <strong>K2 </strong>6/23/86, The first ever woman ascent to the top. She waited on the top for Michel Parmentier (France, died on Everest in 1988) and the couple: Maurice and Liliane Barrard (France, both died during descent from the top of K2). <strong>Shishapangma  (the true Main Summit)</strong> 9/18/87 with Ryszard Warecki. <strong>Gasherbrum                   II</strong> 7/12/89 with Rhony Lampard from Great Britain. <strong>Gasherbrum                   I</strong> (Hidden Peak) 7/16/90 with Ewa Panejko-Pankiewicz. <strong>Cho                   Oyu</strong> 9/26/91 solo. <strong>Annapurna</strong> 10/22/91 South Face, solo. Wanda Rutkiewicz died 5/12/92 or 5/13/92 on Kanchenjunga. She climbed with Carlos Carsolio. They started together at 3:30 am 5/12/92 from camp IV – 7950 meters. After about a dozen hours of climbing in a deep snow Carlos reached the top. He went down and met Wanda around 8200-8300 meters on the way down. She decided to stay there on a bivouac and started for the top the next day. She did not have food, anything for cooking, not equipment for bivouac. </span><span style="color: #000000">No one ever saw Wanda again…</span></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>Skarb narodowy – <span style="font-weight: bold">Wanda Rutkiewicz, była tą pierwszą z Polek na szczytach świata.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold"><br />
</span></strong><img src="http://www.turnia.pl/img_aktualnosci/big/11739.jpg" border="0" alt="„Uciec jak najwyżej” - Nie dokończone życie Wandy Rutkiewicz autorstwa Ewy Matuszewskiej" width="144" height="218" align="left" /><span style="font-weight: bold"> „Uciec jak najwyżej” – Nie dokończone życie Wandy Rutkiewicz autorstwa Ewy Matuszewskiej.</span></p>
<p>Wanda Rutkiewicz, zwana Gwiazdą Himalajów, pierwsza Polka, która zdobyła Mount Everest, zaginęła podczas swej kolejnej górskiej wyprawy.</p>
<p>Mało jest kobiet na świecie, które w sporcie tak ekstremalnym jak himalaizm osiągnęły tak dużo. Opowieść o niej napisała dziennikarka, a zarazem przyjaciółka. Pisze tu o pasji wspinania, ale także o Wandzie Rutkiewicz jako o człowieku,</p>
<p>o ludziach w jej życiu, przede wszystkim zaś o ich wcale niełatwej, ale wiernej przyjaźni, tworząc zaskakująco żywy portret swej bohaterki.</p>
<p><strong> Wanda Rutkiewicz-Błaszkiewicz</strong> (ur. 4 lutego 1943, zaginęła 12 maja 1992) – polska alpinistka i himalaistka, z zawodu elektronik, jedna z najbardziej znanych Polek światowego himalaizmu, jako trzecia kobieta na świecie i pierwsza Europejka stanęła na Mount Everest, najwyższym szczycie Ziemi. Urodziła się na Litwie w miejscowości <span>Pługiany</span>. Po II wojnie światowej z całą rodziną przyjechała do Wrocławia. Studiowała na Politechnice Wrocławskiej, z dyplomem inżyniera elektroniki pracowała w</p>
<p>Instytucie Automatyki Systemów Energetycznych. Później przeniosła się do Warszawy, podjęła pracę w Instytucie Maszyn Matematycznych. Zapowiadała się na świetną siatkarkę, grała w I lidze (nawet kandydowała do gry w reprezentacji Polski). Pierwsze kontakty ze wspinaniem miała w Sokolikach, skałkach koło Jeleniej Góry. Tam się zaczęła jej przygoda z górami, potem były Tatry, Alpy i w końcu Himalaje. Należała do Klubu Wysokogórskiego we Wrocławiu, a po 1973 roku, kiedy przeniosła się, do Klubu Wysokogórskiego w Warszawie. Była zdecydowaną rzeczniczką i zdeterminowaną realizatorką wspinaczkowej samodzielności kobiet. Jej osiągnięcia, w szczególności dokonane w zespołach kobiecych stawiają Wandę Rutkiewicz w gronie najlepszych Himalaistek w historii. Zaginęła w 1992 podczas</p>
<p>ataku szczytowego na Kanczendzongę. Wraz z <span>Carlosem Carsolio</span>12 maja o w pół do czwartej wyruszyli w górę z obozu IV na 7950 m. Po dwunastogodzinnej wspinaczce w głębokim śniegu Carsolio stanął na wierzchołku. Schodząc napotkał Wandę na wysokości ponad 8200 metrów.Mimo braku sprzętu biwakowego zdecydowała się przeczekać noc i kontynuować wejście następnego dnia. Jej ciała nie odnaleziono. W 1994,jako jedna z trzech pierwszych osób została odznaczona (pośmiertnie)Medalem im. Króla Alberta I, przyznawanym za wyjątkowe zasługi górskie przez King Albert Memorial Foundation.Zdobyła osiem z czternastu ośmiotysięczników: <strong>Mount Everest, Nanga Parbat, K2, Shisha Pangma, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Cho Oyu i Annapurnę.</strong></p>
<p>Znaczące Przejścia :</p>
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<li>1968 – wschodni filar <a title="Trollryggen" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trollryggen&amp;action=edit">Trollryggenu</a> w <a title="Norwegia" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegia">Norwegii</a> z <a title="Halina Krüger-Syrokomska" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halina_Kr%C3%BCger-Syrokomska">Haliną Krüger-Syrokomską</a> (pierwsze przejście kobiece, siódme w ogóle),</li>
<li>1970 – <a title="Pik Lenina" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pik_Lenina">Pik Lenina</a> w <a title="Pamir" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir">Pamirze</a>, jej pierwszy siedmiotysięcznik,</li>
<li>1972 – <a title="Noszak" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noszak">Noszak</a> (7492 m) w <a title="Hindukusz" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindukusz">Hindukuszu</a>,</li>
<li>1973 – północny filar <a title="Eiger" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger">Eigeru</a> w zespole kobiecym,</li>
<li>1975 – kierowniczka i organizatorka kobiecej wyprawy na <a title="Gasherbrum" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum">Gasherbrumy</a>
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<li>11 sierpnia – zdobycie dziewiczego <a title="Gasherbrum III" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_III">Gasherbruma III</a> (7946 m)  wspólnie z <a title="Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alison_Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz&amp;action=edit">Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz</a>, <a title="Janusz Onyszkiewicz" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Onyszkiewicz">Januszem Onyszkiewiczem</a> i <a title="Krzysztof Zdzitowiecki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krzysztof_Zdzitowiecki&amp;action=edit">Krzysztofem Zdzitowieckim</a>; jest to rekord wysokości pierwszego wejścia z udziałem kobiet,</li>
<li>12 sierpnia – zespół kobiecy osiągnął <a title="Gasherbrum II" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_II">Gasherbrum II</a>,</li>
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<li>1978 – północna ściana <a title="Matterhorn" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn">Matterhornu</a> zimą w zespole kobiecym,</li>
<li>16 października 1978 – <a title="Mount Everest" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest">Mount Everest</a> jako pierwszy Polak i Europejka, trzecia kobieta na szczycie świata,Wanda Rutkiewicz zdobyła Mount Everest tego samego dnia którego Karol Wojtyła został wybrany na Papieża.Jan Paweł II przyjmując później alpinistkę na audiencji skomentował ten fakt mówiąc “Dobry Bóg tak chciał, abyśmy tego samego dnia zaszli tak wysoko”</li>
<li>1985 – <a title="Aconcagua" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconcagua">Aconcagua</a> w <a title="Andy" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy">Andach</a> południową ścianą w stylu alpejskim.</li>
<li>15 lipca 1985 – <a title="Nanga Parbat" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanga_Parbat">Nanga Parbat</a>, wraz z <a title="Krystyna Palmowska" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Palmowska">Krystyną Palmowską</a> i <a title="Anna Czerwińska" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Czerwi%C5%84ska">Anną Czerwińską</a>, ścianą Diamir (pierwsze wejście czysto kobiece),</li>
<li>23 czerwca 1986 – <a title="K2" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2">K2</a> (jako pierwsza kobieta i pierwszy Polak),</li>
<li>18 września 1987 – <a title="Shisha Pangma" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shisha_Pangma">Shisha Pangma</a> z <a title="Ryszard Warecki" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryszard_Warecki&amp;action=edit">Ryszardem Wareckim</a>,</li>
<li>12 lipca 1989 – <a title="Gasherbrum II" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_II">Gasherbrum II</a>,</li>
<li>16 lipca 1990 – <a title="Gasherbrum I" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasherbrum_I">Gasherbrum I</a> z <a title="Ewa Panejko-Pankiewicz" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Panejko-Pankiewicz">Ewą Panejko-Pankiewicz</a>,</li>
<li>26 września 1991 – <a title="Cho Oyu" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Oyu">Cho Oyu</a> samotnie,</li>
<li>22 października 1991 – <a title="Annapurna" href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna">Annapurna</a> południową ścianą, samotnie.</li>
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		<title>Jerzy Kukuczka – the ultimate legend, part 4, final.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerzy “Jurek” Kukuczka has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner. The description hints sort of a ‘second best’ rating – but nothing could bemore off. In fact, many consider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer ofall. In this series, we examine why.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Jerzy “Jurek” Kukuczka</strong> has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner. <a href="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jerzy-kukuczka-lhotse-south-face.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://himalman.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jerzy-kukuczka-lhotse-south-face.jpg?w=279&amp;h=375" alt="Jerzy Kukuczka - Lhotse south face" width="279" height="375" /></a>The description hints sort of a ‘second best’ rating – but nothing could bemore off. In fact, many consider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer ofall. In this series, we examine why.</p>
<p><strong>Poor miner sets Alpine excellence</strong></p>
<p>In the previous parts of the series, we wrote that Jurek summited all 8000ers in only eight years, compared to Messner’s 16, most throughnew routes and/or in winter. He opened nine new routes, five climbs in alpine style and four in winter. But Jerzy had more than the challenge of the climb on his plate: He was a poor miner, living behind the iron curtain of communist Poland.</p>
<p><strong>An underdog’s bite</strong></p>
<p>Through all his life, he would climb using ragged, old, inadequategear. Just to get out of Poland was a fight. And he was slow to acclimatize. But he overcame all this with an incredible endurance and an extraordinary capacity to withstand suffering. The sheer force of will would ‘lift’ Jerzy up on the mountains in a remarkable climbing career.</p>
<p><strong>Outstanding performance by sheer power of will</strong></p>
<p>Lhotse in the late seventies would be the first 8000er for JerzyKukuczka, and the start of a lightning career. At the moment he reachedthe summit and saw the void down its unclimbed south face, Lhotse became a special mountain to Jurek – a place to return. But the next 8years he spent climbing the 14, 8000ers in the most impossible styles and conditions, crowning the period in 1986 with Kanchenjunga winter, anew route on K2 and a first ascent of the Manaslu NE face November 10.</p>
<p><strong>Today: The end.</strong></p>
<p>With that, 1986 saw another remarkable triple header: A winterclimb and two impressive new routes – one in winter conditions. In lessthan eight years, Kukuczka was simply running out of 8000ers to climb.But two remained:</p>
<p>Lucky enough, deep winter arrived at last – and a perfect time forAnnapurna! After his early November climb on Manaslu, Jurek and old friend Hajzer summited Annapurna North Face on February 3, 1987.</p>
<p>Hajzer returned to the mountains with Kukuczka already in September that same year. That’s when they made a first ascent of the East Ridgeon Shisha Pangma (Summit on September 18, 1987).</p>
<p><strong>Olympic Gold – now what?</strong></p>
<p>Jerzy had made it. With this summit he had completed the most famous ‘list’ of all in high altitude mountaineering. So, now what?</p>
<p>Jurek was free to return home, give up climbing, make money at last- and bask in fame, glory, and tributes. A few months later he andMessner would receive the Olympic Gold Medal (Note: Not the silver!).</p>
<p><strong>South Face of Lhotse</strong></p>
<p>But Jurek had stuff to do on the 8000ers. Already the next year, in1988, he climbed Annapurna East. But he never stopped thinking of Lhotse. And that unclimbed South Face.</p>
<p>Kukuczka got his wish. He completed the route and summited Lhotse –once again. But, in a bitter twist of fate, the same mountain where hehad started – would cost him his life… Or was it not fate at all perhaps? Maybe it was the 7mm rope he was tied in to. From 8350 meters, Jurek fell into the void.</p>
<p>Jerzy Kukuczka left behind a widow and two children. And one of the most amazing careers in mountaineering story. His memories and feelings remain still though, in two books: “My vertical World” and “JerzyKukuczca, de la mine aux sommets” (J.K: from the mine to the summits),the last one with a prologue by Walter Bonatti.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: x-small"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898863449/everestnews">My                         Vertical World : Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks</a> <span>by Jerzy Kukuczka</span></span></p>
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