Bargiel climbed the 8,080-metre mountain on the China-Pakistan border in the early hours of Wednesday, CET, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The Polish ski mountaineer then skied down Gasherbrum I, confirming on social media just after 3.20 p.m. CET that he had reached base camp.
On July 20, Bargiel scaled the nearby Gasherbrum II, the world’s 13th highest peak at 8,035 metres, before skiing down from summit to base camp, news outlets reported at the time.
Topping and ski-descending the Gasherbrums marks another feat for the Pole, under a project called Hic Sunt Leones (Latin for “Here be dragons,” meaning unexplored territories), according to PAP.
In 2013, Bargiel summited and ski-descended Shishapangma, the world’s 14th-highest mountain, at 8,027 metres, in China.
He has also climbed and ski-descended from Himalayan eight-thousanders Manaslu (the eighth-highest peak in the world at 8,156 metres) and K2 (the Earth’s second-biggest mountain at 8,611 metres), the PAP news agency reported.
In 2015, Bargiel became the first person to ski down Broad Peak, the world’s 12th-highest mountain which rises to 8,015 metres in the Himalayas.
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Source: PAP, portalgorski.pl