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Jerzy Kukuczka
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Polish alpine and high-altitude climber (1948–1989)
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Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer born in Katowice on March 24, 1948. A citizen of the Polish People's Republic and later Poland, he was a male of Polish ethnicity who spoke Polish and practiced Catholicism. His manner of death was accidental, occurring on Lhotse on October 24, 1989.
Kukuczka is associated with significant figures Artur Hajzer and Wanda Rutkiewicz. He authored three works, including *Moj pionowy swiat*, *Mi mundo vertical*, and *My vertical world*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Moj pionowy swiat
- Mi mundo vertical
- My vertical world
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Poland
- Active from
- 1935-04-10
- Active to
- 2018-03-07
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 26
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jerzy+Kukuczka">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,004x
- Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,862x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,187x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nationality
- Polish
- Born
- ( 1948-03-24 ) 24 March 1948, Katowice , Poland
- Died
- 24 October 1989 (1989-10-24) (aged 41), Lhotse , Nepal
- Website
- Virtual Museum of Jerzy Kukuczka
- First ascents
- Gasherbrum II East, Biarchedi , Manaslu East, Yebokalgan Ri, Shishapangma West
- Major ascents
- Four winter ascents on the eight-thousanders
- Known for
- Second to climb all 14 eight-thousanders
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Józef
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Katowice
- Place of death
- Lhotse
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Native language
- Polish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Jerzy Kukuczka Mount Everest 1980.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jerzy Kukuczka
- date of birth
- 1948-03-24
- date of death
- 1989-10-24
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Jerzy Kukuczka
- ethnic group
- Poles
- birth name
- Jerzy Kukuczka
- significant person
- Wanda Rutkiewicz
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kukuczka on a mural in Katowice Street art of Kukuczka in Bogucice, the district of Katowice where he grew up and lived, unveiled in 2019.
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka ( Polish: [ˈju.zɛf ˈjɛ.ʐɨ kuˈkut͡ʂ.ka]; 24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man (after Reinhold Messner) to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in the world, a feat known as the "Crown of the Himalayas." He accomplished this feat in less than eight years, and climbed all, except for Lhotse, by new routes or in winter. He is the only person to have climbed two eight-thousanders in one winter, and his ascents of Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga and Annapurna were the first winter ascents. His ascent of K2 in 1986, in alpine style with Tadeusz Piotrowski, is now known as the Polish Line. No other mountaineers have attempted an ascent using the route since.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jerzy Kukuczka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.