Krzysztof Wielicki is the fifth man to reach the Crown of the Himalayas ? 14 eight-thousand-meter high mountains. He often achieved this as a pioneer, being the first to reach the summit of three of them in winter: Mount Everest, Kangczendzonga and Lhotse. He climbed Lhotse alone on New Year's Eve, wearing a corset after a receiving a spine injury while in the mountains. He ?ran up? Broad Peak alone in one day (he was the first one to conquer an eight-thousand-meter-high mountain in a day). He climbed Dhaulagiri (16 hours) and Shisha Pangma alone, marking out new routes.
Piotr Pustelnik
Born in: 1951
Profession: Doctor of technical sciences, a researcher at the Technical University of Łódź, the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering.
He has been climbing since 1975. He works as a mountaineering instructor.
He has climbed in the Tatras, Alps, Dolomites, the Pamir, Karakorum and Himalayas.
First expeditions: Since 1985 in Kashmir Himalayas (India). He has conquered several six-thousand-meter-high mountains. In 1986 he participated in an expedition to Pinnacle Peak (6945 m.) in the Kashmir Himalayas. In 1997 and 1998 he took part in central expeditions to Pamir (former USSR) and reached the summit of Korzeniewska (7037 m.). >> Read more
Ryszard Pawłowski
Born in 1950, a Cancer, but a Tiger according to the Chinese horoscope, an electrical engineer, mountaineering instructor, and mountain guide.
He has participated in over 100 expeditions to various mountain chains, as a participant and an organiser. He has reached ten eight-thousand-meter-high peaks, including K2 (8611 m. above sea level) climbing the northern pillar. He is the only Pole to put his foot on Mt Everest (8848 m. above the sea level) three times. He has made numerous climbs along difficult climbing routes in various regions in the world.
He has accompanied Jerzy Kukuczka, Piotr Pustelnik, Janusz Majer, Krzysztof Wielicki and others. >> Read more www.patagonia.alpinizm.com www.wyprawytrekkingi.com.pl
Marek Kamiński
(born March 24, 1964 in Gdańsk) - a traveller, an explorer of the polar regions, and an entrepreneur. He was the first man in the world to reach the two Poles unassisted, during one year. On May 23, 1995 he reached the North Pole with Wojciech Moskal, and the South Pole alone, on December 27, 1995.
The winner of the Polish edition of the "World Young Business Achiever" Competition. A member of the Explorers Club in New York. Author of a book entitled "Moje Bieguny. Dzienniki z wypraw 1990-1998" (My Poles. Journals from the 1990-1998 expeditions); Artus prize-winner for the Best Book of 1998, and the winner of Arkady Fiedler Prize known as the "Amber Butterfly".
My love affair with climbing began 5 years ago during a chance rock climbing course. I wasn?t delighted, however, when only on the last day of the training course we went to Sokolica, I got to like the exposition and the whole fuss with the gear on a multi-pitch route. A thought came to my mind that climbing might turn out to be even more interesting, and I decided to take a mountaineering course. Almost a year later my conjectures proved correct. Mountain climbing was great.
I had another occasion to do some climbing in March of the following year. I talked a friend living in the neighbourhood into climbing Środkowe Żeberko on the Skrajny Granat. It was supposed to be the first winter climbing for both of us. My friend?s experience was similar; he took a course in mountaineering, only 5 years earlier. We took a brand new rope, borrowed drytooling axes, one 20 year-old axe hammer, some other climbing gear and a lot of tension. >> Read more
Krzysztof Sadlej
Age: 26
I inherited my passion for mountain trips mainly from my parents. I also read a lot.
My climbing adventure began after buying a 15-meter-long static rope which I didn?t really know what to do with.
I mostly carried it in my backpack, imagining rope slide-downs (I had no harness then) into Tatra depths.
A totally unknown Czech mountaineer I met by accident at a shelter made me realise I lacked some climbing gear. >> Read more
Aleksandra Taistra
I have been climbing since 1999.
I took my first steps in the world of climbing in the "Koliba" Club in Chorzów. Then I moved to the Katowice Mountain Climbing Club.
At the moment I am a 3rd year student of the Academy of Physical Education
in Cracow.
I do some rock climbing too and I enter races as well. >> Read more
Elżbieta Fijałkowska-Glajza
A mountaineering
instructor since 1979. She gives summer and winter training courses in
the Łódź Mountain Climbing Club. Since 1989 she has been
organising climbing camps for children and young people on a regular
basis.
Born December 6, 1987 in Zakopane
A multi talented sportsman:
Alpine skiing - a long-standing contestant of the AZS Club in Zakopane, assistant to a ski instructor.
In June 2005, we won the TOPR
tender for professional clothing for mountain rescuers. We know that
while saving human life, reliable clothing and equipment are as
important as the rescuers' experience. That is why we feel honoured to
provide the Tatra rescuers with clothing to guarantee comfort and
safety in their daily struggle with nature. We are pleased that
thanks to our state of the art technologies, we can offer confidence to
people who are responsible for our daily safety when we hike in the
Tatras. >> Read more
Katarzyna i Andrzej Mazurkiewiczowie
Our travelling passion has become our
way of living. We spent several years altogether hiking in the
Himalayan regions of India and Nepal, Siberia (Jakucia, Buriacia),
Russian Far East (Kamczatka, the Kuril Islands), Middle Asia, Mongolia,
Pakistan and Iran.
