Post by Bonobo on Oct 16, 2016 1:33:17 GMT 1
I just read that 2 Polish mountaineers died in the Himalayas.
Two Polish climbers die in Himalayas
14.10.2016 12:07
Two Polish climbers have died while scaling the Shivling peak in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India, officials have said. Grzegorz Kukurowski lost consciousness and died while camping at an altitude of 6,300 meters. Fellow climber Łukasz Chrzanowski fell and slid several hundred meters into a crevice. Piotr Pustelnik, president of the Polish Mountaineering Association, said Chrzanowski was still alive when a two-man rescue team reached him. A helicopter was called out but the climber died before further help arrived. Pustelnik said both climbers were experienced mountaineers. They were part of an eight-strong Polish expedition scaling the Shivling peak, which is over 6,500 metres high.
There were many more before them who remained in the mountains.
Wanda Rutkiewicz:
On 16 October 1978, she became the third woman, the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1986 she became the first woman to successfully climb and descend K2, which she did without supplemental oxygen, as part of a small expedition led by Lilliane and Maurice Barrard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Rutkiewicz
Two Polish climbers die in Himalayas
14.10.2016 12:07
Two Polish climbers have died while scaling the Shivling peak in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India, officials have said. Grzegorz Kukurowski lost consciousness and died while camping at an altitude of 6,300 meters. Fellow climber Łukasz Chrzanowski fell and slid several hundred meters into a crevice. Piotr Pustelnik, president of the Polish Mountaineering Association, said Chrzanowski was still alive when a two-man rescue team reached him. A helicopter was called out but the climber died before further help arrived. Pustelnik said both climbers were experienced mountaineers. They were part of an eight-strong Polish expedition scaling the Shivling peak, which is over 6,500 metres high.
There were many more before them who remained in the mountains.
On 16 October 1978, she became the third woman, the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1986 she became the first woman to successfully climb and descend K2, which she did without supplemental oxygen, as part of a small expedition led by Lilliane and Maurice Barrard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Rutkiewicz
