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MOJ PIONOWY SWIAT [MY VERTICAL WORLD: CLIMBING THE 8000 METER PEAKS] Jerzy Kukuczka 1995 1st Polish ed Paperback Near Fine
By Kukuczka, Jerzy
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Warsaw, 1995, Polish edition.287 pp, color and b/w photos. In Polish. Used paperback. Near Fine.

Kukuczka was the first Pole and the second person to climb all 14 8000 meter peaks. Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka’s incredible achievement of climbing all fourteen 8000-metre peaks in just eight years; and apart from Lhotse, either by a new route or first winter ascent - and on a very tight budget! Shortly after completing his autobiography the author was killed on Lhotse (ten years after first climbing it) while attempting the unclimbed South Face. For some, his achievement was greater than Messner's,

My Vertical World is Jerzy Kukuczka's autobiography, written in his native Polish. Even translated, the book reads like some heroic Norse saga with Jerzy striding through it like a doomed Odin. A fascinating story, because it is a record of the personal memories of the Himalayan conqueror.


List of climbers who have summited all 14 eight-thousanders[48]
OrderOrder
(No O2)		NamePeriod climbing
eight-thousanders		BornAgeNationality
11Reinhold Messner1970–1986194442Italy Italian
2Jerzy Kukuczka1979–1987194839Poland Polish
32Erhard Loretan1982–1995195936Switzerland Swiss
4[49]Carlos Carsolio1985–1996196233Mexico Mexican
5Krzysztof Wielicki1980–1996195046Poland Polish
63Juanito Oiarzabal1985–1999195643Spain Spanish
7Sergio Martini1983–2000194951Italy Italian
8Park Young-seok1993–2001196338South Korea Korean
9Um Hong-gil1988–20011960[50]40South Korea Korean
104Alberto Ińurrategi1991–2002[51]196833Spain Spanish
11Han Wang-yong1994–2003196637South Korea Korean
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