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Mountaineering: Poland's Bargiel scales and skis down Nanga Parbat

03.07.2026 16:30
Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel has made history by climbing Nanga Parbat, an 8,126-meter peak in Pakistan, without supplemental oxygen and completing a full ski descent from the summit.
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Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel.
Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel.Photo: PAP/Marcin Gadomski

The world's ninth-highest mountain, Nanga Parbat is known as the "Killer Mountain" because of its steep, technically demanding terrain and its historically high death toll.

Despite hazardous conditions, Bargiel successfully completed the climb and descent, his team said, marking another major achievement in high-altitude ski mountaineering.

The feat adds to Bargiel's string of successes on Pakistan's 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas and the Karakoram.

Piotr Urbaniak has the story.

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