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Andrzej Bargiel, who was the first to ski from the top of K2 (8,611 m) to the base of the mountain, admitted that it was exhausting and at times very dangerous. "When I came to the wall, I just lay down on the snow," he said.more

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Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel is trying to become the first person to complete a ski descent of K2.more

Andrzej Bargiel and Janusz Gołąb as well as four Pakistani porters on high ground began climbing on the mountain K2 (8611 m) in Karakorum on Thursday. For 30-year-old Bargiel, the main goal is to enter and exit from the second highest peak in the world.more

Another death on Mont Blanc amid attempts to crack down on under-equipped climbers.more

Four months after the death of Tomasz Mackiewicz on Nanga Parbat, his climbing partner Elisabeth Revol has published a letter of thanks for saving her life.more

A 48-year-old Sherpa climber stood atop the world's highest mountain for the 22nd time today becoming the only mountaineer in the world to hold the record for most summits on Mt Everest.more

A group of climbers with a well-known Cracow traveler Piotr Śliwiński embarks on an expedition, the aim of which will be to conquer the highest mountain in the world - Mount Everest to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Poland regaining its independence.more

Bartosz Malinowski together with Joanna Lipowczan were the first Poles to pass the Great Himalayan Trail - one of the most difficult mountain routes in the world, numbering 1,700 km. Later they wandered through the Indian Himalayas.more

Anna Antonina Solska, wife of Tomasz Mackiewicz, who remained at Nanga Parbat at an altitude of about 7300 m, thanked the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol for taking immediate fight for her husband's recovery and stay with him as long as possible.more

A French climber has described how she left her stricken companion high in the Himalayas and descended alone, narrowly escaping death.more

Adam Bielecki and Denis Urubko reach Elisabeth Revol, but the rescue operation to save Tomek Mackiewicz has been cencelled due to bed weather.more

The rescue operation for the prisoners of Nanga Parbat Tomasz Mackiewicz and Elisabeth Revol, which will be trapped under the Nanga Parbat summit, will begin on Saturday - the Winter Himalayanism website has been informed. The four climbers of the Himalayas will start with two helicopters to help K2.more

The weather and happiness will be decided by Marcin Kaczkan, participant of the winter expedition to K2, the only undiscovered eight-thousander of that time, about climbing the summit. He is one of the three climbers in the world with a winter height record for "Góra Góry".more

Eleven Polish mountaineers will fly to Pakistan in a month. As PAP informed the head of the national expedition on the unfinished winter summit in Karakorum K2 (8611 m) Krzysztof Wielicki, Christmas will spend with the family and will travel on December 29.more

Marek Kamiński starts in Zakopane and marches around the Tatra Mountains. Within eight days, he wants to over 200 km. Next year, also in October, will depart from Lukla in Nepal to the base under Mount Everest as part of the Polish Himalayas 2018 project, and then on a trip around the world.more

Enter and return happily - emphasized the head of the national expedition for the unremarkable winter summit in Karakorum K2 (8 611 m) Krzysztof Wielicki. This is one of the biggest climbing challenges in history, with 10 Polish mountaineers and Russian Denis Urubko.more

Nepal has started remeasuring the Mount Everest to check if the height of the world's tallest peak is altered by a powerful 2015 earthquake in the country.more

Making a full ski downhill from K2 (8 611 m) to the base (5 100 m) is a very complex but achievable challenge - assessed Andrzej Bargiel after returning to Poland from Karakorum expedition.more

"I start the attack with Kuba Pobudka and Janusz Golab" - Andrzej Bargiel from Zakopane informed. The Poles are planning to reach the summit of K2 (8 611 m) in Karakorum. more

Polish priest-climber was seriously wound up climbing from the Italian side to the Grandes Jorasses peak on the French border at the Mont Blanc massif. The priest is in the intensive care unit at the Aosta hospital - informed the Polish consulate in Milan.more

Participants of the expedition to the highest summit of Karakorum K2 (8611 m) Andrzej Bargiel and Janusz Golab established camp 3 at the height of 7100 m. Conditions are difficult, and strong winds increase the risk of avalanches. Recently on the Abruzzi Ribbon snow masses have camped 3 other expeditions.more

"We all look at it for the winter" -Jerzy Natkański said. The expedition leader at K2 emphasized that the target was not just a topside, but the best logistics and tactical preparation for the assault on the last unadorned winter 8-meter (8,611 m).more

The legend of Himalayanism, the first man in history to stand at all fourteen eighty thousand, the 72-year-old Italian Reinhold Messner believes that mass tourism has turned the sport of climbing into pure sport.more

Janusz Adamski, the first Pole to climb Mt. Everest from the north and descend south, was given a 10-year ban on climbing in Nepal. The 49-year-old climber did not have the necessary permissions.more