Polish climbers receive award for saving mountaineer on Nangar Parbat
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
11.05.2019 11:00
The Polish Olympic Committee has awarded Himalayan mountaineers of the 2018 Polish winter expedition to K2 for bringing French woman Elisabeth Revol, descending from the summit of Nanga Parbat, to safety.
Himalayan mountaineers Krzysztof Wielicki (R) and Denis Urubko (L) during the Fair Play Awards ceremony, held by the Polish Olympic Committee, in Warsaw on Friday. The Himalayan mountaineers of the Polish winter expedition to K2 were the winners of the 52nd Fair Play Competition. Photo: PAP/Piotr Nowak
The Fair Play prize honours sportsmanship and behaviour that upholds the spirit of compassion and humanistic values.
On 25 January 2018, Himalayan mountaineers, Poland's Tomasz Mackiewicz and France's Elisabeth Revol reached the 8,126-metre summit of Nanga Parbat, the ninth-tallest mountain in the world.
Mackiewicz’s symptoms of altitude disease, however, made it impossible for him to go down the mountain on his own. His partner left him in an ice rift and tried to call for help.
The participants of the Polish expedition immediately rushed to the rescue, breaking their own attempt at the first winter ascent to K2.
Polish climbers Adam Bielecki and Denis Urubko managed to reach Revol after being flown by helicopter to Nanga Parbat.
Mackiewicz, who suffered frostbite and snow-blindness, was still stranded at 7,200 metres when the rescue team decided to call off the rescue due to adverse weather conditions.
(aba)
Source: PAP
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