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	Jerzy Kukuczka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerzy Kukuczka(March 24, 1948 - October 24, 1989)- born in Katowice, Poland - Polish alpine and high - altitude climber.
		Kukuczka is considered by many to be the best high-altitude climber in the world.
		Jerzy Kukuczka died attempting the South Face of Lhotse in Nepal on October 24, 1989 at an altitude of about 8200 meters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerzy_Kukuczka (255 words)

	Jerzy Kukuczka - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		On September 18, 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka became the second man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders.
		Kukuczka is considered by many to be the best climber in the world, because he ascended all fourteen peaks without supplementary oxygen faster than anybody else.
		Jerzy Kukuczka, Eight-thousanders, Bibliography, External links, 1948 births, 1989 deaths and Polish climbers.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Jerzy_Kukuczka (280 words)

	jerzy kukuczka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jerzy "Jurek" Kukuczka, born in Katowice / Poland 1948.
		Lost on the South Face of Lhotse in October 24, 1989 at an altitude of 8,200 meters.
		His climbing partner Voytek Kurtyka says about Kukuczka: -"Jurek was the greatest psychological rhinoceros I've ever met among alpinists, unequalled in his ability to suffer and in his lack of responsiveness to danger.
	meddows.scorp.sk /jerzy_kukuczka.htm (139 words)

	Book Review: My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks - Loma Prieta PCS
		Jerzy did them all and that too by either blazing new routes or in the winter, and always without supplemental oxygen.
		The book is divided into chapters, the first, typical of Jerzy, it seems, describing his early days in Poland in a very brief manner.
		Jerzy is always humble and regards Messner as his superior.
	lomaprieta.sierraclub.org /pcs/articles/kukuczka.asp (477 words)

	EverestHistory.com: Jerzy "Jurek" Kukuczka
		Kukuczka was born in Katowice (Poland) in 1948, and died attempting the South Face of Lhotse on October 24, 1989 at an altitude of about 8200 meters.
		During his quest for the 14 summits Kukuczka would establish nine new routes and would perform one solo summit, four in alpine style, and four during the winter.
		In fact given that Kukuczka established so many new routes and made many of his ascents during the winter combined with operating from an impoverished communist country (Kukuczka's equipment was often hand-made and clothes second-hand) many consider his achievement to be greater that Messner's.
	www.everesthistory.com /climbers/kukuczka.htm (321 words)

	Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news
		Jerzy is in perfect shape, thanks to a lifetime of jogging, swimming, playing volleyball in the Polish League, skiing, playing lawn tennis, cycling, skating, gymnastics and - climbing, his life passion.
		Jerzy is an all season climber, and was a precursor of winter climbing in the Alps.
		Jerzy was a member of the Polish Mountaineering National Team for many years and Governmental sports authorities gave him a gold medal for outstanding achievements for the Himalaya-Karakoram Expedition and a silver medal for outstanding achievements for winter Alps activities (Les Droites).
	www.mounteverest.net /news.php?id=278 (1102 words)

	mak2001b
		11.01.1986 KANCHENJUNGA (8598 m) - Jerzy Kukuczka and Krzysztof Wielicki; in the 3rd camp Andrzej Czok died, most likely due to swelling in the lungs, who conquered Dhaulagiri (winter) and Mt. Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in spring-fall seasons; the expedition of the Gliwice Mountaineering Club was led by Adam Machnik.
		In October of 1981 Jerzy Kukuczka marked a partly new route.
		Kukuczka's ascent was impaired by the Nepalese officials.
	www.everestnews.com /mak2001b.htm (3368 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The hardship that Jerzy had to undergo to even get to the peaks is amazing.
		He was unsparing on himself, braving all that the mountains had to throw at him.
		Kukuczka's book does not provide an explanation of the motives (these have to be gained by first hand experience) but in depth understaning of the process.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0898863449 (579 words)

	Outside Online: The News: The K2 Tragedy
		On July 4 the Poles, Jerzy Kukuczka, 38, and Tadeusz Piotrowski, 46, started up the center of this unclimbed wall in light, impeccably pure style, hell-bent on pushing the limits of Himalayan climbing to a new plane.
		To fund their expeditions, Kukuczka and his Polish comrades had been routinely forced to smuggle vodka, rugs, running shoes, and other unlikely commodities that could be bartered for hard currency.
		Kukuczka himself departed immediately for Nepal to attempt his 12th 8,000-meter peak and gain ground on Messner in the race to knock off all 14.
	outside.away.com /news/specialreport/alison/K2omag.html (5387 words)

	To ascend and to come back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Watching the struggle for K2 made Jerzy Kukuczka express an opinion, which had moved the international mountaineering circle.
		DHAULAGIRI (8167 m) - Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka; the expedition of the Gliwicki Klub Wysokogorski was headed by Adam Bilczewski.
		KANGCHENJUNGA (8598 m) - Jerzy Kukuczka and Krzysztof Wielicki; Andrzej Czok dies in camp III, probably as a result of a pulmonary edema, the conqueror of Dhaulagira (in winter) and Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in spring/fall seasons; the expedition of the Gliwicki Klub Wysokogorski was headed by Andrzej Machnik.
	www.russianclimb.com /k2/ascent_and_back.html (1741 words)

	SummitPost.org - Gasherbrum IV Climbing Information
		So they wanted to make a new route on Broad Peak(because as you problably know Kukuczka wanted all his ascents to be made via new route or during winter season)-but Broad Peak wasn't their main goal on that expedition.
		On the other hand Kurtyka claimed that Kukuczka did't want to climb because Gasherbrum IV is "only" 7925 meter high so it's not an 8000 meters peak.
		Kukuczka didn't make a "real" attempt on Gasherbrum IV, but there's a short section about the story in his fantastic book - My Vertical World, where he tells you the story about climbing all the 14 8000'rs.
	www.bettercamper.com /show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/5484 (4661 words)

	Cinephiles Store: Product Information
		Kukuczka wanted to climb in the Himalaya so badly, he'd do anything to get there.
		Kukuczka is very modest in his accounts, telling the stories as if the events that befell him were the most normal in the world.
		The book gives great insight into what made Jerzy go forth and climb and also provides a great account of his day-to-day reality of organizing expeditions and the thrill of being in the mountains again.
	www.cinephiles.net /cgi-bin/store.php?ASIN=0898863449 (260 words)

	K2 climb - K2 and Karakorum by climbers, news
		But Jerzy had more than the challenge of the climb on his plate: He was a poor miner, living behind the iron courtain of communist Poland.
		Lhotse would be the first 8000er for Jerzy Kukuczka, and the start of a lightning career.
		Already the next year, in 1981, Kukuczka reached a double goal on Makalu: A variation on Makalu La - the huge saddle between the main peak and Makalu II - and the NW Ridge, solo.
	www.k2climb.net /story/ExWebSeriesJerzyKukuczka-theultimatelegend,part3Nov262004.shtml (896 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jerzy Kukuczka
		Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station.
		Jerzy talks about being a young man desiring to travel to the far away Himalaya to climb.
		He describes the incredible privation and hardship that he had to undergo to scrounge money and food in the days of the Solidarity movement in Poland where he was in danger of being considered a food hoarder.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jerzy-Kukuczka (1063 words)

	List of Poles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerzy Dąbrowski, aeronautical engineer, designer of the PZL.37 Łoś bomber
		Jerzy Różycki — collaborated with Marian Rejewski on solving Enigma ciphers
		Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, (1894-2005), 111, - Polish soldier of World War I and of the 1920-1921 Polish War against Soviet Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Poles (1466 words)

	K2: The American North Ridge Expedition - Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Wanda Rutkiewicz and Jerzy Kukuczka at K2 Base Camp, 1986.
		Wanda climbed the Abruzzi Spur route with Liliane and Maurice Barrard and Michel Permentier.
		Jerzy climbed K2's Magic Line, Base Camp to Negrotto Pass and up the South Ridge.
	classic.mountainzone.com /climbing/2000/k2/photos/wanda/photo05.html (47 words)

	Summit Journal '96: Ed Viesturs: Carlos Carsolio
		Only three other climbers--Italian Reinhold Messner, Jerzy Kukuczka of Poland, and Swiss Erhard Loretan--are members of the "complete" 8,000-meter club, and Carsolio would be the youngest initiate.
		On Nanga Parbat, Carsolio teamed up with and befriended Kukuczka, the Polish legend and a man whom Carsolio regards as the ''best Himalayan hard climber in the world--always trying a new route on a hard face." Carsolio and Kukuczka climbed together for four years.
		Going alpine style with Kukuczka, Carsolio had blasted a new route, reached the smaller east summit, then, just two hours from the prize, was overcome by severe frostbite.
	outside.away.com /outside/peaks/viesturs/carsolio.html (1119 words)

	Warsaw Voice - K2 Was Too Much
		A turning point was also the race for the Crown of the Himalayas-reaching all the 8,000m peaks-between Messner and one of the best Polish climbers Jerzy Kukuczka.
		Kukuczka also perished on Lhotse in October 1989.
		Three days later the peak was reached by Zygmunt Heinrich and Jerzy Kukuczka climbing the same path.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/1608 (2288 words)

	Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news
		The second 14 summit knight was Jerzy Kukuczka, now considered perhaps the best climber in history.
		Jerzy made all the 8000er summits in less than eight years, setting a record that has yet to be broken.
		Jerzy finnished 11 months after Messner but it would take nine years before the next climber completed the list of the 14, 8000ers - that's when Loretan came in, at spot number 3.
	www.mounteverest.net /story/14x8000EdViestursjoinstheworldsmostexclusiveclimbingclubMay122005.shtml (801 words)

	50 Years ago The Polish did it!
		2.) Kangchenjunga: Krzysztof Wielicki and Jerzy Kukuczka reached the summit on 1/11/86.
		Three days later Andrezej Heinrich and Jerzy Kukuczka summited by a new route that has not been repeated on Cho Oyu.
		6.) Annapurna: Jerzy Kukuczka and Artur Haizer reached the Summit on 2/3/87.
	www.everestnews2004.com /stories2004/50polish02172005.htm (190 words)

	Winter Lhotse 2001/2002
		The South Face 3300 meters high has been attempted in the past by Reinhold Messner, Jerzy Kukuczka, Christophe Profit to name a few.
		Most of the mountaineers have been unsuccessful and several have died including Jerzy Kukuczka on the attempt.
		The South Face of Lhotse was first climbed by the famous mountaineer Tomo Cesen in the Spring of 1990, but some questioned the ascent.
	www.k2news.com /winlhotse2002.htm (343 words)

	Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news
		Jerzy "Jurek" Kukuczka has entered mountaineering history as ‘the second man to conquer all 14, 8000ers” after Reinhold Messner.
		In fact, many consider Kukuczka the greatest mountaineer of all.
		That style is the reason why Jerzy is considered a reference on elegant climbing, pure spirits and deep respect for the rules of the game.
	www.mounteverest.net /story/ExWebSeriesJerzyKukuczka-theultimatelegend,part2Nov242004.shtml (309 words)

	Developments in Nepal (from Mount Everest) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...
		Completed in 1980 by a team of phenomenally rugged Polish climbers, this ascent was led by Andrzej Zawada; expedition members Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki reached the summit on February 17.
		To crown this success, Zawada then led a spring expedition to make the first ascent of the South Pillar (left of the South Col), getting Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka to the summit.
		Kukuczka, like Messner, would eventually climb all of the world's 26,250-foot (8,000-metre) peaks, nearly all by difficult new routes.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-230933 (1118 words)

	Voytek Kurtyka - Trailspace.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		maybe confusing with jerzy kukuczka, who was the 2nd to summit all 14 8k-meter peaks, but died on lhotse in 89.
		Mike, I brought up Kukuczka, but he said no. I really don't think the guy knew what he was talking about.
		He also made the first traverse of all three of Broad Peak's summits, alpine style with Jerzy Kukuczka, and of course so many other ground breaking ascents.
	www.trailspace.com /forums/climbing/topics/8681.html (550 words)

	Broad Peak 8047m Austrian Karakoram Expedition 1957
		The ascent by Kukuczka and Kurtyka in 1982 had been unauthorised as they had, rightly, considered that Pakistani permission to climb minor peaks as part of the acclimatisation programme for a K2 expedition would not extend to another 8000m peak.
		During their traverse of Broad Peak’s three summits Jerzy Kukuczka and Wojtek Kurtyka found the summit cairn built by Glazek and Kulis and were able to confirm it stood on the actual summit.
		Besides the standard route of the Austrian First Ascent in 1957, there is the Polish Route of Jerzy Kukuczka and Wojciech Kurtyka in 1984 climed also by three Japanese climbers in 1995 and the New SW Face Route by Denis Urubko and Serguey Samoilov in 2005.
	www.broadpeak.org /en/broad_peak.php (2377 words)

	Eight-thousander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He completed this task on October 16, 1986.
		One year later, in 1987, Jerzy Kukuczka was the second man to do so, and as of 2005, a total of thirteen people have done the same.
		This is an extremely hazardous feat; at least four people have died while close to completing the full list.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eight-thousander (211 words)

	MANASLU : A Chronological Table 1950-1996
		A 5-member Polish-Mexican party, led by Jerzy Kukuczka, climbed a new route on the NE Face in autumn.
		They switched the route to the direct line to the East Pinnacle and the leader Kukuczka, Artur Hajzer and Carlos Carsolio set out their BC on November 5.
		On November 10, Kukuczka and Hajzer made the summit while Carsolio stayed at the final bivouac due to his frostbitten hands.
	www.jac.or.jp /english/kiroku/manasul/manasl_e.htm (5405 words)

	Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge
		You might not find the literary style of this book to be a knockout, but, like Jerzy Kukuzka's "My Vertical World", the content will probably blow you away.
		His all ascents stand in contrast with the siege methods of the time, but the ascent of Nanga Parbat set the limit of endurance and courage, to be met decades later.
		His style compares to the style Mount Everest was ascended in the same way as Jerzy Kukuczka's 14-summits compare to Reinhold Messner's, respectively.
	www.iyares.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=0898866103 (707 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of the seven first winter ascents on 8000m mountains so far achieved, six of them were by Polish teams.
		That's some record, even for the nation that produced men like Jerzy Kukuczka, Krzysztof Wielicki and Andrzej Zawada.
		It's as though the Poles have a special gene for winter mountaineering, which the rest of the world somehow didn't acquire.
	www.qsqs.pl /oqdos/tatras_winter_course.htm (3149 words)

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