Poles climb, ski down Dhaulagiri in Himalayas

Polish mountaineers Bartek Ziemski and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira have summited Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest peak in the Himalayas, with Ziemski then skiing all the way down, according to news outlets.

Dhaulagiri.

Solundir, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Polish duo topped the 8,167-metre Himalayan mountain on Sunday, Polish state news agency PAP reported. 

Ziemski and Pereira climbed Dhaulagiri without using supplemental oxygen and Sherpa support, according to the wspinanie.pl website.

Spektakularny wyczyn Polaków. Bartek Ziemski zjechał na nartach z Dhaulagiri, Oswald R. Pereira udokumentował to na filmie#PAPinformacje https://t.co/DjQonEI6ls

— PAP (@PAPinformacje) May 15, 2023

Ziemski then skied down to Base Camp, while Pereira filmed his descent, before climbing down to Base Camp on foot, news outlets reported.

Pereira told the PAP news agency afterwards: “We spent no more than half an hour at the summit. Bartek Ziemski fastened his skis and began his descent. I took footage and photos as he skied down the mountain.”

MAD Ski Project Himalayas 2023:

Bartek Ziemski and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira summited #Dhaulagiri (8,167m) without supplementary O2 or Sherpa support.

Then Ziemski skied down to Base Camp, while Pereira descended on foot and reached Base Camp at 6:30 pm.https://t.co/XnBt074Odi pic.twitter.com/BqoJXqim0s

— 4sport.ua (@4sportua) May 15, 2023

Poles climb Annapurna

Dhaulagiri is the second over-8,000-metre peak that Ziemski and Pereira have climbed this season, after summiting the nearby 8,091m Annapurna on April 17, the ExplorersWeb site reported.

That ascent was also made with no support, according to news outlets. 

Summit Update Annapurna Exped
17 April 2023.

•With a quick acclimatization rotation, Polish Mountaineers duo Oswald R. Pereira and Bartosz Ziemski successful climbed Mt. Annapurna this morning without using oxygen bottles and Sherpa support.

• MAD Ski Project Expedition pic.twitter.com/Xd9ce0RZqI

— Seven Summit Treks 🇳🇵 (@sst8848) April 17, 2023

On both occasions, Ziemski descended the mountain on skis, ExplorersWeb reported.

The two Poles climbed Annapurna and Dhaulagiri under a joint undertaking, called Mad Ski Project 2023, the PAP news agency reported.

Dhaulagiri summit yesterday
8,167m

Ziemski and Pereira didn’t need the fixed ropes to reach the summit. Neither bottled oxygen.
Ziemski skied down from the top, Pereira descended alone.

📷Oswald Rodrigo Pereira pic.twitter.com/YBtPRmakzE

— k2 (@KrisAnnapurna) May 15, 2023

Mount Dhaulagiri, in Nepal, was first topped in 1960, according to historians.

The first winter ascent was made in 1985 by Polish mountaineers Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka, the PAP news agency reported.   

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Source: PAP, wspinanie.pl, ExplorersWeb