Maciej Berbeka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish mountaineer
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Place of Birth: Zakopane, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Maciej Berbeka
- Maciej Berbeka (17 October 1954, Zakopane, Poland – 6 March 2013, Broad Peak, Baltistan) was a Polish mountaineer, mountain guide UIAGM and member of TOPR.
- He and his teammate Tomasz Kowalski went missing on 6 March 2013 as they were descending from Broad Peak.
- They were declared dead two days later.Berbeka's accomplishments include making the first winter ascent of the eight-thousanders Manaslu, on 12 January 1984, with Ryszard Gajewski; of Cho Oyu, on 12 February 1985, with Maciej Pawlikowski (the only winter ascent on eight-thousander made along a new route); and of Broad Peak, on 5 March 2013 with Adam Bielecki, Tomasz Kowalski and Artur Malek.
- He also climbed and summited Annapurna and Mount Everest.
- He was also the first person in the world to have reached 8000 m winter in Karakoram - Rocky Summit (8028 m) of 1988, on 6 March.
- This occurred exactly 25 years to the day before he was reported missing on Broad Peak.
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