Awarded annually since 2009, the Piolet d’Or award takes into account levels of technical ability, surpassing limits thought undoable and respect for the mountains and environment.
President Andrzej Duda decorated three high-altitude climbers with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on Monday, for their part in a winter 2018 mountain rescue on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat.
Lublin’s Aleksandra Rudzińska is on top of the world following her double win in China which also saw her break the Polish record by scaling a 15-metre wall in 7’28 seconds.
Film director and climber, Eliza Kubarska took a TFN reporter to the beautiful Kampinos National Park to talk about her new project ‘The Wall of Shadows’ that examines what drives people to risk everything to get to the summits of the world’s highest mountains.
Award-winning documentary film maker Eliza Kubarska explains why she is accompanying an expedition to climb a sacred Himalayan mountain.
The volunteer team of climbers, doctors and nurses spend weeks on one of Georgia’s most dangerous peaks.
Fastest man to climb Mt. Elbrus now plans to ski down K2.
A Polish attempt to scale the world's second highest peak, K2, in winter has been called off due to adverse weather conditions, the expedition's leader, Krysztof Wielicki, announced on Monday.
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