Piotr Pustelnik summits Annapurna – bags the 14x8000ers!

(ExWeb/Madrid) “Hey, it’s me – Piotr Pustelnik. I must have some serious mental illness…I want to go back to Annapurna next spring.” Piotr told ExplorersWeb some months ago.

After four failed attempts and several broken promises, the Himalayan knight was back to his final 8000er. It has paid off – today, he stood on the top together with friend and “second Peter” Hamor, from Slovakia. According to Hamor home team, the climbers stood on top at 1:45pm, local time.

Piotr has thus become the third Polish climber to complete the 14x8000ers, after Jerzy Kukuczka and Krzysztof Wielicki.

Update 11:23 am EDT: Fellow Pole and team mate Kinga Baranowska has also reached the top. “In spite of hurricane-force winds, we reached Annapurna summit,” Kinga reported. “Now we are descending slowly; please, think of us…”

Anna was Kinga’s 7th 8000er.

It is yet unclear whether Russians Serguey Bogmolov and E. Vinogardsky have topped-out as well. Seasoned Annapurna veteran and 11, 8000er summiteer Serguey Bogomolov from Russia was a member in Piotr team. Bogomolov tried Anna latest in 2008; suffered frostbite and left for home, but returned to try and rescue Iñaki Ochoa de Olza.

The amazing “Three Peters” (Pustelik, Hamor and Morawski) suffered a fatal blow in spring 2009, when Piotr Morawski fell to his death in a crevasse on Dhaulagiri. “I still get emotional thinking about him and that stupid accident,” Piotr told ExplorersWeb. “However, Peter Hamor and I must get out of the shadow after Piotrek’s death. Maybe this trip should be a tribute to him.”

* Polish version of this post:

- Annapurna Dream 2010: Pustelnik z Koroną Himalajów!

Climbers who have reached the summit of all 14 eight-thousanders

Field 0₂ lists people who have peaked all 14 without bottled oxygen.

Order accomplished	All without O2 (order)	Name	Period	born	at age	Nationality
1	1	Reinhold Messner	1970-1986	1944	42	Italian
2		Jerzy Kukuczka	1979-1987	1948	39	Polish
3	2	Erhard Loretan	1982-1995	1959	36	Swiss
4		Carlos Carsolio	1985-1996	1962	33	Mexican
5		Krzysztof Wielicki	1980-1996	1950	46	Polish
6	3	Juanito Oiarzabal	1985-1999	1956	43	Spanish
7		Sergio Martini	1983-2000	1949	51	Italian
8		Young Seok Park	1993-2001	1963	38	Korean
9		Hong Gil Um	1988-2001	1960[6]	40	Korean
10	4	Alberto Iñurrategi	1991-2002[7]	1968	33	Spanish
11		Wang Yong Han	1994-2003	1966	37	Korean
12	5[8]	Ed Viesturs	1989-2005	1959	46	American
13	6[9][10][11]	Silvio Mondinelli	1993-2007	1958	49	Italian
14	7[12]	Ivan Vallejo	1997-2008	1959	49	Ecuador
15	8 [13]	Denis Urubko	2000-2009	1973	35	Kazakhstan
16		Ralf Dujmovits	1990-2009	1961[14]	47	German
17	9	Veikka Gustafsson	1993-2009	1968	41	Finnish
18	[16]	Andrew Lock	1993-2009	1961	48	Australia
19	10	João Garcia	1993-2010	1967	43	Portuguese
20		Piotr Pustelnik	1990-2010	1951	59	Polish
21	[21]	Oh Eun-Sun	1997-2010	1966	44	Korean

*See:

- Piotr Pustelnik – famous Polish climber. /Version english and polish/

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