Krzysztof Wielicki

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Krzysztof Wielicki at the Pol'and'Rock Festival 2018

Krzysztof Jerzy Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Ostrzeszów ) is a Polish mountaineer.

On February 17, 1980, Wielicki and Leszek Cichy made the first winter ascent of Mount Everest .

On July 14, 1984, he was the first mountaineer in the world on Broad Peak to climb an eight-thousander in one day. On October 20 of the same year he stood on the summit of Manaslu , which he reached via a new route. He climbed this mountain a second time in 1992.

In 1986 he and Jerzy Kukuczka made the first winter ascent of the Kangchenjunga ; the two climbers reached the summit on January 11th. In the autumn of the year, precisely on September 24, he boarded along with Marcel Rüedi the Makalu via a new route variant. In 1988 he was the first to climb Lhotse in winter. The summit success on New Year's Eve was also the first solo ascent of the mountain. On April 24, 1990, he managed the first solo ascent of Dhaulagiri . After climbing Annapurna on October 21, 1991, he climbed Cho Oyu on September 18 and Shishapangma on October 7, 1993, each using new routes. In 1995 he climbed both Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II . A year later, after climbing K2 on August 10 and Nanga Parbat on September 1, 1996, he became the fifth person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders .

He climbed Gasherbrum II a second time in 2006.

In winter 2012/2013 Wielicki led the successful Polish expedition to Broad Peak .

Wielicki was born in Szklarka Przygodzicka, a village in the Greater Poland municipality of Ostrzeszów . He gained his first experience in mountaineering as a member of the local boy scouts .

In 2018, Wielicki was awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize for Sport together with Reinhold Messner .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski : Ascents - Everest. ( PDF , approx. 355 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Broad Peak. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Mitterer: Krzysztof Wielicki (* 1950). In: bergfieber.de. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Oswald Oelz : Raised too high too quickly. In: Online edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 27, 2009, accessed August 8, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c d About Nepal Himalayas. ( PDF , approx. 1.95 MB ) Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal, archived from the original on August 16, 2010 ; accessed on August 8, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Kangchenjunga. ( PDF , approx. 42 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  7. ↑ winter action ahead: Hajzer, Szymczak and Bowie going for Broad Peak. In: explorersweb.com. November 13, 2008, accessed August 5, 2010 .
  8. ^ Krzysztof Wielicki: Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma, New Routes . In: The American Alpine Journal . 1994, p. 277 f . ( Online on the American Alpine Club website as PDF , approx. 1.5 MB [accessed on August 10, 2010]).
  9. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Shisha Pangma. ( PDF , approx. 55 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Gasherbrum II . In: The American Alpine Journal . 1996, p. 291 ( online on the American Alpine Club website as PDF , approx. 3.3 MB [accessed on August 10, 2010]).
  11. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Gasherbrum I. ( PDF , approx. 57 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  12. ^ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - K2. ( PDF , approx. 48 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  13. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Nanga Parbat. ( PDF , approx. 49 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Climbers who have ascended to the summits of all of the world's 14 mountains over 8000 meters. ( PDF , approx. 15  KB ) Accessed July 30, 2010 (English).
  15. ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Triumph and horror on Broad Peak , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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personal data
SURNAME Wielicki, Krzysztof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wielicki, Krzysztof Jerzy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish climber
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Szklarka Przygodzicka (Glass Village), urban and rural municipality Ostrzeszów