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Wojciech Kurtyka was born on 25 July, 1947, is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, born 1947.. Discover Wojciech Kurtyka's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?
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Wojciech Kurtyka Net Worth
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Wojciech Kurtyka (also Voytek Kurtyka, born 25 July 1947, in Skrzynka near Kłodzko) is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges.
He started in Greater Ranges in 1972, completing a little-known – but important according to him – first ascent of the wall of Akher Chogh in Hindu Kush, in lightweight, alpine style.
He graduated as engineer in electronics (in 1973 at Wrocław University of Technology).
Kurtyka became well known abroad in early 1973 after achieving the first winter ascent of Trollveggen (Troll Wall) in Norway, the highest vertical cliff on the continent (4 men Polish team, see the list of climbs below).
He lived in Wrocław up to 1974 when he moved to Kraków.
He started climbing in the Himalayas in 1974.
After participating in two big Polish national expeditions in 1974 and 1976, he gradually turned to lightweight expeditions.
His teammates were such world-class Himalayan climbers as, among others, Alex MacIntyre (1977, 1978, 1980, 1981), Jerzy Kukuczka (1981, 1983, 1984), Doug Scott (1993, Nanga Parbat attempt), Erhard Loretan (1988, 1990, 1991, 1997), Reinhold Messner (1982, Cho Oyu winter attempt), Yasushi Yamanoi (2000, 2001, K2 and Latok attempts).
The ideas of minimal equipment and support even on the most difficult walls and highest peaks was included in his philosophical concept of the "path of the mountain".
He is also an inventor (around 1980) of the local Polish grading system of free climbs.
This system uses an opened scale, called "Kurtyka scale" or "Krakowska scale".
In 1985 he climbed the "Shining Wall," the west face of Gasherbrum IV, which Climbing magazine declared to be the greatest achievement of mountaineering in the twentieth century.
Kurtyka's and Robert Schauer's (Austrian) climb of the west face (Shining Wall) of Gasherbrum IV in 1985 was selected by Climbing magazine as one of the 10 most impressive climbs of the 20th century (including rock climbing, bouldering etc.).
Besides being a climber, Kurtyka is author of many articles on climbing published in Polish and English.
In 2016, he received the Piolet d'Or for lifetime achievement in mountaineering.
His climbs in Poland consist of many difficult climbs – in crags, the hardest free climbs and free solo climbs of the time.
In the Tatra Mountains he did a lot of first free ascents, first ascents in winter and established new winter routes.
In 2016, he received the Piolet d'Or Carrière (Lifetime Achievement Award).
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