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Runners give up NYE fun for gruelling 24-hour mountain run to raise money for children’s wheelchairs

Łukasz Wawrzyniak and Urszula Kujawka are looking to raise money to buy specialist wheelchairs for the Ładne Historie Foundation and their ‘Łączą nas góry’ (Mountains connect us) project which organise trips for children with physical disabilities and their families in the Sudete Mountains. Łączą nas góry/Facebook/Arkadiusz Lipin

Łukasz Wawrzyniak and Urszula Kujawka from the Wawrzynteam running group, will spend 24 hours running continuously on a route near the Wielka Sowa mountain, the highest point of the Owl Mountains range in the Central Sudetes in South-western Poland.

Gran-tastic! Tarnów 78-year-old proves she is fastest granny in the world after running up Tatras in less than two hours

Sprightly Barbara Prymakowska outshone other pensioners in the over 60’s category of the race after running up the Kasprowy Wierch peak 1,986 metres above sea level in a staggering 1hr, 45 minutes.

Spectacular observation tower to once again crown Śnieżnik mountain nearly 50 years after controversial demolition

Inaugurated on 9th July 1899, the 33.5-metre tower – adjoined by a shorter 18-metre structure – was built with the purpose of providing views from the so-called Silesian Mont Blanc and quickly became a hit among hikers of the time.

Heroes awarded France’s highest honour after rescuing alpinist from ‘killer mountain’

The four-man Polish team were on an expedition to scale the peak of K2 188km away when they heard of Elisabeth Revol’s plight and volunteered to brave freezing temperatures of minus 35 degrees Celsius to rescue her. 

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Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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