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Broad Peak is a 2022 Polish biographical adventure drama film directed by Leszek Dawid . The film centers on Maciej Berbeka , a Polish mountaineer , and his attempts to complete the first-ever winter ascent of Broad Peak , an eight-thousander in the Karakoram . [ 1 ]
Maciej Berbeka (17 October 1954 – 6 March 2013) was a Polish mountaineer and mountain guide. [1]Berbeka made the first-ever winter ascent of three eight-thousanders: Manaslu, on 12 January 1984 with Ryszard Gajewski, and Cho Oyu, on 12 February 1985 with Maciej Pawlikowski (the only winter ascent on an eight-thousander made along a new route), and Broad Peak on 5 March 2013 with Adam ...
The peak's name aptly describes its physical characteristics, with a summit that extends over 1.5 kilometers (7⁄8 miles) in length, giving it the appearance of a "broad peak." [ 3 ] Three of the mountain's five summits are eight-thousanders : Broad Peak (8051 m), Rocky Summit (8028 m), Broad Peak Central (8011 m), with Broad Peak North (7490 ...
2.12 Broad Peak. 2.13 ... was the first to ski down an 8000m peak which he did on Annapurna in 1979 and over the course of the expedition skied all segments of the ...
Two days later, Purja summits Broad Peak on 26 July, thus completing a 23-day push to climb the 5 eight-thousanders in the Karakoram. [6] Purja rushes back to Kathmandu to be with his mother who has suffered a heart attack. He then returns to summit Cho Oyu on 23 September, and Manaslu on 27 September. [6]
He organized the 2002-2003 Polish winter expedition on K2, which failed to reach the summit. He made another attempt to climb an eight-thousander in the winter by organizing an expedition on Nanga Parbat (2006-2007) but was forced to turn back due to adverse weather conditions. In 2013, he led an expedition to climb Broad Peak in the winter.
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On 4 August 1992, a Spanish expedition made the first ascent of a route on the Chinese east side to Broad Peak Central (and thus the third ascent of this summit). After three failed attempts in July, Catalans Òscar Cadiach , Enric Dalmau, Lluis Ráfols and Italy's Alberto Soncini finally reached the summit, having previously bivouacked at ...