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    Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer. He was born in Katowice, his family was ethnically Silesian Goral. On...
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  • Kukuczka is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Czesław Kukuczka (1935–1974), Polish defector killed at the Berlin Wall Jerzy Kukuczka...
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    Czesław Kukuczka (23 July 1935 – 29 March 1974) was a Polish man who became the 114th known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Kukuczka was assassinated...
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    January 1985 with Jerzy Kukuczka, and for the first ascent of the South Pillar route on Mount Everest in 1980 (also with Kukuczka). He suffered a pulmonary...
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  • In 1988, the Olympic Order was presented to Reinhold Messner and Jerzy Kukuczka, the first two people to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. Messner...
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    the Himalayan season in 1981. On 3 February 1987, Polish climbers Jerzy Kukuczka and Artur Hajzer made the first winter ascent of Annapurna I. The first...
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    ascent was repeated three days later by Andrzej Heinrich and Jerzy Kukuczka, with Kukuczka setting an additional record for climbing two eight-thousanders...
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    of the main summit by Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka without the use of supplemental oxygen (Kukuczka's first conquered eight-thousander, and eventually...
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  • with Jerzy Kukuczka and Marek Łukaszewski 1975 – Grandes Jorasses, N face (Pointe Hélène, Polish route), new route, with Jerzy Kukuczka and Marek Łukaszewski...
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  • mountain. Piotrowski died on 10 July 1986. Two days previously he and Jerzy Kukuczka had finished the first ascent of the South Face of K2 (also called the...
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