climber, alpine climber, himalayan climber, Wanda Rutkiewicz
Wanda Rutkiewicz was born on February 4, 1943 in Plungiany, Poland
(today Lithuania). She died either on May 12 or May 13, 1992, while
climbing Kangchenjunga. After World War II the Soviet Union annexed the
eastern parts of Poland so her family moved to Wrocław in western
Poland where she graduated as electrical engineer.
Wanda Rutkiewicz (pron. van-dah root-kie-vitch) is regarded as one of the greatest woman mountaineers ever. She was the third woman and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on October 16, 1978. She was the first of Polish climbers, too (it took 2 more years for others). In 1986 she became the first woman to successfully climb K2.
1978 - Mount Everest
1985 - Nanga Parbat
1986 - K2
1987 - Shisha Pangma
1989 - Gasherbrum II
1990 - Gasherbrum I
1991 - Cho Oyu
1991 - Annapurna I
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