himalaisci/ -tki

By mountaintravel • June 28th, 2009

On the 21st April 1985 Chris Bonington reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 51. He was a member of the Norwegian Everest Expedition. He was the leader of the 1972, 1975 and 1982 British Mount Everest expeditions, and has travelled all over the world, making him become one of Britons most [...]

Born in 1976, he died on Dhaulagiri somewhere over 5500 meters…
* see : – Breaking news: Piotr Morawski lost on Dhaulagiri. Piotr Morawski zginął na Dhaulagiri. /Version english and polish/
He started to climb in 1996, and winter climbing quickly became his passion. The first high mountaineering expedition he took a part in – to Chan [...]

Maciej Berbeka
the Tatra Mountain guide IVBV/UIAGM, the member of Mountain Rescue Service TOPR, the climber, participant and expeditions leader to Himalaya and Karakorum. Graduated Fine Art Academy in Cracow.
Maciek Berbeka has so far conquered 5 of 14 – 8000m. peaks:
1981 – Annapurna – south face of Annapurna, new route
1984 – Manaslu – first ascent [...]

Polish, Born 7/10/49: Summits, Nanga Parbat (7/15/85), Broad Peak-Rocky Summit (6/30/83), Everest (5/22/2000), Shishapangma-Central? or Main (10/6/2000), Lhotse (5/21/2001) and Cho Oyu (9/25/2001). Anna known for being the oldest woman to Summit Everest (at the time) at the age of 50 (born 7/10/49 climbed Everest from Nepal side on 5/22/2000).
The first Polish woman to reach [...]

Kinga Baranowska – (born 1976) – polish mountaineer. Currently living in Warsaw. She summited her first eight-thousander – Cho Oyu – in 2003. Failed on attempt to reach one of the most difficult seven-thousander Jengish Chokusu in Tian-Shan range. In 2006 she successfully reached the top of Broad Peak. On the June 11, 2007 [...]

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MountEverest.net – http://www.mounteverest.net/
ExWeb’s tribute to Inaki Ochoa: When good men die.
We want wild adventure, but go on guided trips. We want a lake-side cottage; but buy a large house in suburbia. We dream of a husky-wolf, but get a lap-dog. We shovel our fist in our mouth; and go through life unheard.
That’s [...]

MARCIN MIOTK – alpinista młodego pokolenia, fotograf, filmowiec. Od kilku lat sukcesywnie realizuje swoje marzenia związane z górami wysokimi. Mimo młodego wieku zdobył kilka trudnych szczytów, w tym trzy szczyty ośmiotysięczne. W roku 2004 Marcin zdobył Pik Pobiedy (7439 m n.p.m.) – jeden z najtrudniejszych siedmiotysięczników świata. W roku 2005 roku spełnił swoje wielkie [...]

Ryszard Pawłowski (24 June 1950) Polish alpine and high-altitude climber and photographer. Member of The Explorers Club.
Ryszard Pawlowski in the founder and co-owner of Patagonia Mountain Agency. He has been climbing since 1970 and is an alpinism instructor and guide. He has climbed the mountains of North and South America, the Himalayas, [...]

Leszek Cichy is a Polish mountaineer, geodesist, financier, and entrepreneur. He was born in Pruszków, Poland on November 14, 1951.
He is best known for making the first winter ascent of Mount Everest together with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1980 which established the winter ascent record of 8,848 meters.
He was also the first Polish climber to [...]

Thousands honour Sir Edmund Hillary.
himalman : New Zealand’s “colossus”, Sir Edmund Hillary, was farewelled in a state funeral in Auckland that combined tears and laughter as … more »
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Uroczystości pogrzebowe Edmunda Hillary’ego.
himalman : Legendarny alpinista, poszukiwacz przygód i filantrop był najbardziej znanym Nowozelandczykiem Edmund Hillary dokonał pionierskiego wejścia na [...]

  New Zealand’s “colossus”, Sir Edmund Hillary, was farewelled in a state funeral in Auckland that combined tears and laughter as his family and friends shared memories of his great achievements and humanity.
St Mary’s Church in Parnell, where the funeral was held, and the neighbouring Holy Trinity Cathedral, where Sir Ed had been lying [...]

Legendarny alpinista, poszukiwacz przygód i filantrop był najbardziej znanym Nowozelandczykiem
Edmund Hillary dokonał pionierskiego wejścia na Mount Everest wraz z Szerpą Tenzingiem Norgayem 29 maja 1953 r. “Załatwiliśmy skurczybyka” powiedział do towarzyszy eskapady po zejściu ze szczytu, a dzięki relacji BBC słowa te usłyszał cały świat. W szeregu wielkich poszukiwaczy przygód stawiają go również inne wyczyny: [...]

Everest legend Edmund Hillary has died at the age of 88.
This is a big loss to the world of exploration, Hillary’s family and also to Himalaya chronicler Elizabeth Hawley, 83, who remained one of Hillary’s closest friends since his great Everest ascent.
Full story : http://www.mounteverest.net/
Edmund Hillary has passed away, taking a big chunk [...]

Piotr Pustelnik (ur. 1951)

Pracownik naukowy Politechniki Łódzkiej (Wydział Inżynierii Procesowej i Ochrony Środowiska), jeden z najlepszych polskich himalaistów, instruktor alpinizmu /do niedawna redaktor naczelny górskiego magazynu “n.p.m.”/. Od 1975 roku wspinał się w Tatrach, Alpach, Dolomitach, Pamirze, Andach, na Alasce, w Karakorum i Himalajach. Od kilku lat realizuje projekt Trzy Korony, polegający na [...]

 
Scott E Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American climber and guide, and the first American to summit 27,940-foot (8,516 meter) Lhotse, fourth highest mountain in the world. Fischer spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey and took two years of climbing courses after being inspired at the age [...]

Reinhold Messner (born September 17, 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time, noted for making the first solo ascents of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen “eight-thousanders” (peaks over 8,000 metres [...]

Krzysztof Wielicki the famous Polish climber.

Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, Poland) – Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world.
He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On three of them: Mount Everest, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse, he climbed as the first [...]

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Image of Jerzy Kukuczka and the Lhotse South Face

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 [...]

Image of Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka in Everest BC

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 be more off. In fact, many consider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer of all. In [...]

Image of the Tatras by Markiusz Markiewicz
Jerzy”Jurek” Kukuczka has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second manto conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner.
The description hints sort of a ‘second best’ rating – but nothingcould be more off. The best are not always the first. In fact, manyconsider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer of all. In [...]

Jerzy “Jurek” Kukuczka has entered mountaineering history as ‘thesecond man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner.
The description hints sort of a ‘second best’ rating – but nothingcould be more off. The best are not always the first. In fact, manyconsider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer of all. In this series, we examine why.
Today, part [...]

Jerzy ‘Jurek’ Kukuczka, the famous Polish climber, has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner, lost on Lhotse in 1989.

There have been a lot of rivalries surrounding Everest over the years, some so subtle they went unnoticed, some so blatant they erupted into a full-fledged battle-of-wills [...]

Tenzing Norgay (Nepali: तेन्जिङ नोर्गे शेर्पा) GM (May 1914 – 9 May 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Edmund Hillary were the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.

Early life
Tenzing came from a peasant family from Khumbu in Nepal, very near [...]

 
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 8000 meter peaks. Wanda was [...]