Polish winter expedition to Broad Peak 2010/11. Zimowa wyprawa PZA na Broad Peak 2010/11.

Polish winter expedition to Broad Peak 2010/11. Polish winter expedition to Broad Peak led by Artur Hajzer , the team : Robert Szymczak, Rafał . Fronia, Jarosław Gawrysiak, Arkadiusz Grządziel, Marcin Kaczkan, Robert Kaźmierski, Jerzy Natkański and Krzysztof Starek. 2010/11 Winter Broad Peak team members’ resume : Artur Hajzer is a Polish mountaineer best known [...]

Polskie wyprawy zimowe w Himalaje.

Zimowe wejścia na ośmiotysięczniki – 17 luty 1980 roku to jeden z tych dni w historii świata, w którym człowiek swoim uporem, pasją, zaciętością inteligencją i perfekcją przełamał kolejną barierę, odsunął w dal granicę tego co niewyobrażalne. Od wieków trafiały się takie dni w nauce, sztuce, eksploracji globu, czy w sporcie. 17 lutego do grona [...]

Himalaya Fall 2010: Season Finally Ends On Lhotse.

Author : Kraig Becker. The Fall Himalayan season has been slowly crawling towards the finish line for a few weeks now. While most of the mountains have been deserted for awhile, there have been a few lingering climbers hoping beyond hope that they would get an opportunity to summit. It seems for two of them, [...]

Everest Climbing Legend Missing On Baruntse.

Author : Kraig Becker. Update: According to this post, from Alan Arnette over at the Outside Blog, the search has been called off. After using the helicopter to survey the area, the SAR team determined that it was impossible that Chhewang Nima could have survived the avalanche. My condolences to his family. Nepali climbing legend [...]