Wojciech Kurtyka
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Wojciech Kurtyka is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges. He lived in Wrocław up to 1974 when he moved to
Troll Wall
Shining Wall on Gasherbrum IV
Piolets d'Or
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The Piolets d'Or is an annual mountaineering and alpine climbing award organized by the Groupe de Haute Montagne, and previously with co-founder Montagnes Magazine, since its founding in 1992. Golden
Wojciech Kurtyka
…of Gasherbrum IV, which Climbing magazine declared to be the greatest achievement of mountaineering in the twentieth century. In 2016, he received the Piolet d'Or for lifetime achievement in mountaineering. His climbs in Poland consist of many difficult climbs – in crags, the hardest free climbs and free solo…
2017 winners Dmitry Golovchenko and Sergey Nilov with their "Golden Ice Axe"