Participants
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Adam Bielecki – 28 years old. Mountaineering Club in Cracow. He comes from Tychy but lives in Cracow. Psychology alumnus at Jagiellonian University. He has been climbing in the mountains for 13 years. Leader od several expedition into various mountains on 5 continents. Winner of the award in the Kolosy 2000 competition for making at the age of 17, as the youngest in the world, lone ascent on Khan Tengri 7,010 m in the alpine style. In the autumn 2011 he conquered the fifth summit of the world, Makalu 8,463 m, without the use of oxygen. |
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Agnieszka Bielecka - 33 years old. Mountaineering Club in Wrocław. Base camp leader; she is in charge of functioning of the base camp, management of workers and resources, but first and foremost she is /Adam’s sister/ responsible for PR, satellite reports and contact with Poland. Tourist guide. She has climbed both in summer and winter in the Tatra Mountains and the Alps. She summited five-thousanders of trekking nature. She has broken her altitude record on the slopes of Lenin Peak, while ascending the Razdelnaya Peak 6,100m. She is a photographer and an author of travel articles. Sailing is her another passion - she has sailed the Atlantic Ocean in an 8-meters yacht. She speaks Hindi. |
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Janusz Gołąb - 43 years old. Mountaineering Club in Gliwice. He started climbing in 1986. Member of the legendary “Wunder team” that at the turn of the century made a series of supreme alpine climbs in the history of Polish mountaineering. The climbs included winter ascent of the Troll Wall in Norway, GrandesJorasses belonging to the Mount Blanc massif and the Eiger in the Alps inter alia. Extreme climbs in Alaska and Greenland were also a part of it. Participant of the famous expedition to the mountains of Patagonia - “Pepsi na Max.” His crowning alpine achievement was to set a new route on the great wall of Kedar Dome in the Garhwal Himalayas. Janusz Gołąb is a winner of a prestigiousKolosy Award; he has been awarded a Medal for Outstanding Achievements in Sport. |
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Artur Hajzer - 49 years old. Mountaineering Club in Katowice.Leader of the expedition.Resident of Mikołów. Entrepreneur. Conqueror of 6 eight-thousanders including 3 via new routes.Participant of 5 winter expeditions to the Himalayas and the Karakorum.Author of the first winter ascent of Annapurna 8,091 m. In the autumn 2011 he conquered the fifth summit of the world, Makalu 8,463 m, without the use of oxygen. |
Supporting team in Poland:
- Izabela Hajzer - co-ordiantion - iza@himountain.pl
- dr Robert Szymczak, MD - remote medical care, rescue logistics
- Witold Bąk and Sebastian Kabała - reception of photo and film transmissions; materials processing
- Grzegorz Chwoła and Joanna Kudelska - PR
- Patrycja Konopka - Facebook profile handling
- Marek Karnecki - web administrator
