Wanda Rutkiewicz
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Wanda Rutkiewicz (pron. IPA: /ˈvanda rutˈkievitʂ/, van-dah root-kie-vitch) was born on February 4, 1943 in Plungė, Lithuania). She died either on May 12 or May 13, 1992, while climbing Kangchenjunga.
After World War II, her family chose to to leave for Poland, settling in Wrocław in southwestern Poland's Recovered Territories, where she graduated University as electrical engineer.
Wanda Rutkiewicz is regarded as one of the greatest woman mountaineers ever. On October 16, 1978, she became the third woman, the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1986 she became the first woman to successfully climb K2 as part of a small expedition led by Lilliane and Maurice Barrard.
- 1978 - Mount Everest
- 1985 - Nanga Parbat
- 1986 - K2
- 1987 - Shisha Pangma
- 1989 - Gasherbrum II
- 1990 - Gasherbrum I
- 1991 - Cho Oyu
- 1991 - Annapurna I
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- A Caravan of Dreams ISBN 0-9538631-0-7
