Wojciech Kurtyka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Polish mountaineer and rock climber, born 1947.
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Place of Birth: Kłodzko, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Wojciech Kurtyka
- Wojciech Kurtyka (also Voytek Kurtyka, born 25 July 1947, in Skrzynka near Klodzko) 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 Wroclaw up to 1974 when he moved to Kraków.
- He graduated as engineer in electronics (in 1973 at Wroclaw University of Technology).
- In 1985 he conquered the "Shining Wall" 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.
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