Inspiring people

December 12, 2016 at 8:10 pm, No comments

On our blog we will present from time to tme people who inspire us. This is one of them:

Andrew and his Snow Leopard

- "Just practice a lot"

Andrzej Bargiel, b. April 18, 1988, Polish alpine skier, runner and mountain climber. It is a three-time Polish champion in ski mountaineering, third overall in the World Cup, world record holder in the running for Elbrus and the first Pole, who, in 2013. managed to get eight-thousander Shishapangma skiing and exit from its apex.

Andrew this year was trying on to win badges Snow Leopard, climbing distinction awarded for winning seven-5, which in the past was within the USSR. List of peaks, where winning was required to grant the title changed depending on political factors and military. These are currently the following peaks, listed in order from widely regarded as the most difficult to easiest:

band Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan / Kazakhstan / China):

· Peak Victory (Pobeda Peak, Dżengisz czokusu) - 7439 m asl

· Chan Tengri - 7010 m asl

band Pamir (Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan):

· The peak Ismaila Samaniego (d. Communism Peak) - 7495 m asl

· Peak Korzhenevskaya - 7105 m asl

· Lenin Peak (Peak Avicenna) - 7134 m asl

August 14, 2016, after 30 days expedition in the mountains of Pamir and Tienszanu Andrzej finished completing Snow Leopard. Thus, young Pole broke the record set in 1999 by Denis Urubkę Molotov and Andrei, who made the same feat in 42 days, which means that the Pole result improved by up to 12 days. It is one of the most important achievements of Polish Himalayan mountaineering in recent years. What's more, with each peak he pulled on skis!

Unplanned events during this trip was for example breaking skis during a jump through the gap at an altitude of approx. 5500 m. On Peak Communism, way back Andrew defeated on one of a ski, while the exit of the most difficult peak Pobeda, its ski fell into the abyss and have to go with a height of approx. 6300 m., weather situations or loss medician and involvement in exploration stocks.

"Success is the loudest speaker in the world"

The expedition can be seen on Canal + Discovery

Official website of the expedition http://www.canalplus.pl/discovery/bargiel/sniezna-pantera.html

Inspiring people

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