Polish Himalaya Expeditions 2009
Nanda Devi East Expedition 2009
Nanda Devi East: Polish to celebrate 70th anniversary of first ascen.
(MountEverest.net) Polish Marcin Miotk and Grzegorz Mroz are leading a team currently on their way to Nanda Devi East, in an anniversary climb 70 years after a fellow Polish expedition achieved the peak’s first ascent.
“That climb was reckoned to be the hardest route done in the Himalayas before WW II, and marked the birth of Polish Himalayan climbing, which later was continued by Rutkiewicz and Kukuczka,” the team reported. Besides Miotk …

Polish Himalaya Expeditions 2009 1st report.
Kangchenjunga 2009 Expedition led by Kinga Baranowska.

Goal:
Kinga Baranowska wants to climb Kangchenjunga (8598 m) by normal (first ascent) route.
Accomplishment time:
01.04.2009 – 30.05.2009
Description of the expedition:
The team wants to climb Kangchenjunga (8598 m) by normal route. Polish Kinga Baranowska is attempting Kangchenjunga, as member in K2 Magic Line leader Oscar Cadiach’s Spanish team.
Kinga’s first 8000er was Cho Oyu in 2002. She topped-out Broad Peak in 2004, Nanga Parbat in 2007 and, last year, Dhaulagiri and Manaslu.
Kinga Baranowska hopes to turn Kangchenjunga into her 6th 8000er.
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