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during the period between the end of World War II and the start of the new millennium. The emphasis here is on their golden age in the 1980s and 1990s when, despite the economic and social baggage of their struggling country, Polish climbers were the first to tackle the world's highest ains during winter, including the first winter ascents on seven
of the world's fourteen 8000-meter peaks: Everest, Manaslu, Dhaulagiri, Cho Oyu, Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, and
Lhotse. Such successes, however, came at a serious cost: 80 percent of Poland's finest high-altitude climbers died on the high ains during the same period they were pursuing these first ascents.
Award-winning writer Bernadette McDonald addresses the social, political, and cultural context of this golden age, and the hardships of life under Soviet rule. Polish climbers, she argues, were so tough because their lives at home were so tough-they lost family members to World War II and its aftermath and were so much more poverty-stricken than their Western counterparts that they made much of their own climbing gear. While Freedom Climbers tells the larger story
of an era, McDonald shares charismatic personal narratives such as that of
Wanda Rutkiewicz, expected to be the first woman to climb all 8000-meter
peaks until she disappeared on Kanchenjunga in 1992; Jerzy Kukuczka,
who died in a fall while attempting the south face of Lhotse; and numerous
other renowned climbers including Voytek Kurtyka, Artur Hajzer, Andrej
Zawaka, and Krzysztof Wielicki.
This is a fascinating window into a different world, far-removed from
modernity yet connected by the strange allure of the ain landscape,
and a story of inspiring passion against all odds.
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