Wanda Rutkiewicz: One of the finest female high altitude climbers

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Wanda Rutkiewicz was one of the best Himalayan climbers in history and a pioneer of all-female climbing expeditions. She was the first woman in history to climb K2 in 1986. During her climbing career, she successfully climbed eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders. She died at the age of 49 while attempting Kangchenjunga, the 3rd highest mountain in the world in May 1992.
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@marchellochiovelli7259 Год назад

Sometimes being stubborn can lead to your death. She seemed to be that as well as her other fine attributes. Crazy... Maybe Lifetime will do a movie about her.

@bambangsuseno8764 Год назад

Remember Wanda Rutkiewicz. She had been the most outstanding high-altitude female alpinist in the world.

@moiraatkinson Год назад

Thank you so much for this video about Wanda - I’ve read ‘The Women of K2’ which tells the story of the first 5 women to summit K2 and how they all subsequently died. It was good to remind myself of her achievements and learn more about her life as well as how she died.

@fergalohearga9594 Год назад

So brilliant. Many thanks for bringing another important but unrecognised life before the public.

@KowalskyLeon Год назад

12:30 On the right hand side I guess it's not Anna Czerwińska but Krystyna Palmowska.

@Strype13 Год назад

[3:45] That is one insanely long pinky finger.

@studebaker4217 Год назад

Wow! A truly amazing person in so many respects. Thank you, again, for re-creating her life for us, and to such a very high standard. Your films are compelling, and hard to stop before their conclusion. Excellent work.

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Thanks

@brianvirgin2995 Год назад

She dug a friend of ours out an avalanche in Patagonia. Saved his life.

@phillipproussier3723 Месяц назад

When did that happen?

@brianvirgin2995 Месяц назад

@@phillipproussier3723 IIRC, late 80s

@safevoyage Год назад

Wanda was the best and someone I consider a role model. Thank you for this video, excellent!

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

You're very welcome!

@chrisl418 Год назад

Thank you for telling us this story. I am glad she lived the life she wanted.

@RG-ja34sep Год назад

Absolutely fascinating story of a legendary climber. This truly is a great production, with lovely pictures and facts, well done!

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Thanks

@adler923 Год назад

Great video! Thank you for making it. You have honored Rutkiewicz greatly. Though she had a great death - I wonder what awesome feats that awaited her had she lived. She could have easily rivaled Kukuzcka and Messner.

@iTsEfFiNsTePhh Год назад

To be honest I feel worse for her mom, can you imagine what she went through? Spending a good chunk of your adult years near Nazis and Communists, bouncing from one war torn country to another, having to deal with everything from that dangerous and insane time period, losing your young son, losing your husband to murder, the only immediate family member she had left her daughter was constantly putting her life at risk in other countries, her daughter disappears and while we can assume she passed while climbing her mom honestly believed until the day she died that she abandoned everything and everyone to become a monk... it's not bad enough to lose your child but then to think they willingly abandoned you too is crazy. Of course my heart breaks for everyone in this (and there's no doubt in my mind that Wanda was dealing with some demons) but especially for her mom 🥺

@upintheeire3531 Год назад

This is fantastic 👏 She was a truly amazing woman and a true lover of the high mountains. I hope her story is heard by many more in the future..Great job 👏 🙂👍

@upintheeire3531 Год назад

Also..there is a great documentary about the Polish Climbers called 'the Art of freedom' Highly recommended 👌

@medea27 Год назад

A brilliant video for a brilliant woman. 👏 Thank you for sharing the "crazy Polish lady's" story, she is a true role model & pioneer... may Wanda rest in peace in the mountains she loved. 🤍

@rhobot75 Год назад

Wathed this vid a few weeks ago but this passage has been haunting me and I needed to come back and transcribe it. Pardon any improper grammar. It is so beautiful, and starts at about 19:33...

@MrVorpalsword Год назад

a moving account .... keep on making these valuable videos please

@twilightpurpleglow Год назад

Wanda left this world doing what she LOVED to do more than anything. I am not a Mountaineer, Trekkie and dislike the snow but I admire those who do just that. I am in awe at the resilience, stamina, fortitude and desire to reach a goal when the odds are you might not make it at all. So sorry she did not follow Carlos Carsolio ( Mexico ) advice to descend. Her mind must nor have been well by then (Oxygen). I would like to think she just up and left to be with the Buddhist as her mom said, it sounds better than the end of the other lady "Sleeping Beauty" at Everest or "Green Boots" etc. RIP Wanda Rutkiewicz ✝

@DellaMcClare8888 Год назад

I love your videos! Thanks so much for taking the time.

@hni7458 Год назад

What a lovely presentation. This is the first time I sort of - in my limited way, I mean - understand the free force that propells these people. Esp now Wanda who had experienced the sheer madness of war and destruction, and chose to find peace in the hills and in the mountains. No wonder she was Polish, where so many noteable ppl come from. Thank you, dear presenter.

@adler923 Год назад

I am surprised at the lack of likes on this video. The amazing achievements of Rutkiewicz mark her not only as a pioneer - but a one of the greatest badass climbers in history. She crawled off K2 after reaching the peak, watching her comrades perish, and then climbed again like a BOSS! Why aren't there more stories about Kukuczka and Rutkiewicz - I'd give anything to see the photo of Jerzy carrying Wanda piggyback. Two of the greatest of the greats. I'm happy she died in a place she loved, doing what she loved. It was a good death.

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Thanks for your time and positive comments.

@ericastier1646 Год назад

judyo your language is poor using american degenerated reversed meaning, have some respect when writing about noble european people, not using rogue detestable language.

@bonnieking5493 Год назад

What a lovely video and narration about Wanda Rutkiewicz. Nicely done! Thank you.

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@TheSonjaxfactor Год назад

She was amazing!

@irenan6585 Год назад

What a woman! Thank you for this upload.

@laurasalo6160 Год назад

No wonder she struggled to make deep personal connections, everyone she cared for was lost. I'm sure she could never find in men what she truly desired, what she found at the top of the world. That being, another mountain.

@billrossignon8621 6 месяцев назад

Excellent documentary of an incredible climber. They could make a movie about her life as it was so interesting. I feel that the way her life ended was always going to be that way as she was never going to stop climbing.

@ralphaverill2001 Год назад

Extreme mountaineering is a dance with death; living on the very edge. Is the desire of a few to live on that edge a blessing or a curse? I think Wanda Rutkiewicz knew she was never going to die of old age.

@MiffetBlue Год назад

No food, no water and no shelter but let’s wait out the night and push for the summit in the morning. 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Wanderingnomad2829 Год назад

Thank you - can you do Hillary Nelson - she was recently killed trying to ski down a mtn with Jim Morrison

@Georgeanne17 Год назад

What an inspirational mind. The mountain is a confrontation not only with nature, God and oneself but ones own mind and will. It becomes the rhythm of life. Her statement of dying on a mountain made absolute sense to me. She knew her destiny was to live and die there. A peaceful life away from the race. She lived on her own terms. Her legacy is a gift to many. Wanda taught we can push through and keep moving, climbing …either the actual mountain or the metaphorical one we must all traverse in our life. May she Rest In Peace.

@Chiller01 Год назад

An amazing high altitude climber. It seems like a questionable decision to bivy alone at that altitude instead of descending. Still a stellar mountaineering career.

@kazkazimierz1742 Год назад

Questionable hardly describes it.

@ericastier1646 Год назад

Well, it could be clouded jugement from high mountain sickness. It gets to the best and there's all kind of testimonies. Like removing all clothes in freezing weather. Even if the mexican man realized she was not herself, it's not easy to force someone down against their will when you don't know them personally.

@igada8907 Год назад

she outpaced the time she lived in; her attitude, ambition to climb high mountains was not understood and appreciated by many at that time...

@tomaszszypua3357 Год назад

Very good work Bro! Thank you very much for this video and Memory about Wanda Rutkiewicz 💪💪 Regards from Poland🇵🇱

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@_DB.COOPER Год назад

Are you really a great climber if you die while climbing?

@EWAMILENAP Год назад

Beautiful♡Thank you so much for this amazing and deeply touching documentary!

@dazz9268 Год назад

This was very well done. Thanks for sharing her story.

@lisadolan689 Год назад

I’m really glad I found this channel. Excellent research delivered so well. It’s wonderful to hear a strong Indian accent speaking such excellent English without compromising the Narrators Indian accent. The pace of the narration is excellent. Well done Narrator

@striktpastrikt-fx5zf Год назад

Important. Plungė where Wanda Rutkiewicz was born, was never a part of Poland. It was always Lithuania. The author of this film has to correct errors.

@andreasantucci4687 Год назад

But you say that Wanda body has never been found , while actually was found in 1995 by an Italian expedition on the slope opposite to the one she was climbed.Two hypotheses were formulated: that she had climbed Kangchenjunga and had then fallen trying to descend from the opposite slope or that, having reached the col that separates the main peak of Kangchenjunga from Kangchenjunga West (Yalung Kang), she had fallen from the col along the gully on the side south

@Za7a7aZ 9 месяцев назад

beautiful and smart woman who lived her life the way she wanted...

@ericastier1646 Год назад

This biography is just right and a nice homage to her with lovely pictures and well understood exposed simple essential key facts of her life with neutrality but human care . You are excelling at this genre and it's not an easy exercise. It requires human qualities not just research and video making abilities.

@karmaclanton5544 Год назад

Great video really enjoyed this one. Never heard of her before thank you for sharing.

@wendyleewilliams1157 Год назад

❤

@Trish.Norman Год назад

Great job! Well done 👏👏👏

@ritaggn 6 месяцев назад

I had the great fortune to meet Wanda while trekking to Kanchenjunga in 1991. She was on her way back to Kathmandu after a failed attempt on that mountain. She invited me to tea when I returned to Kathmandu. At the time, I had no idea how famous she was. We spent an afternoon together talking about mountaineering. I had a few modest climbs of my own in Canada to talk about. Yet, it was only when I bought and read the book “Women Climbing” by Bill Burkett and Bill Peascod, that I discovered who she was. A year later, she made her attempt on Kanchenjunga where she perished. I’d like to think that she did succeed in submitting. I have never forgotten her. Thank you so much for this beautiful film.

@epicadventurearchives 6 месяцев назад

Great memory! No doubt, she was one of the finest female climbers of her time.

@101kmontgomery Год назад

Do not go Alpine Climbing in a year that ends in "6". You have been warned...

@polloloci21 Год назад

Wow. What an amazing lady.

@Joesmoe904 11 месяцев назад

nice work. those polish climbers were a different breed. rip Wanda.

@marilee3566 Год назад

Thank you very much. This was very well done.

@le13579 21 день назад

At 14:07, isnt that from the 2008 expedition?

@williambrandondavis6897 Год назад

This video is all over the place, back and forth and back again. Follow a proven format. This thing has 6 conclusions and jumps all the place with random facts dribbled throughout and no chronological order at all. Try again.

@stasa-X Год назад

It's looks great to me,i visited Wikipedia many times before and i know about her for years. But i love the way who talks and he is doing great job 👍.

@shieldmaiden2660 Год назад

She was brilliant! Thanks for this.

@canyonroots Год назад

Most of them are dead while climbing.

@MarekGODZWA 10 месяцев назад

Great story. For She stays well in her new life.

@CieplinskiPawel Год назад

*WoW❕❗* Thanks for recognition🫡

@shekharjharwal4885 Год назад

Which Bgm used during the video?

@finnsaarinen3471 Год назад

awesome story,,,,,namaste.....finnster

@brianvirgin2995 Год назад

The Troll Wall is a north wall. Only gets 4 hours of sun during the Summer. I climbed in wool clothes and hat. We slept four hours on the "Central Base." Near the top, I stood in ice water on the belay. I started off the next pitch, mid 5.10, and I couldn't feel my feet

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Bravo! You did a great job. That wall is challenging.

@WienGolf Год назад

A really most interesting video about a most interesting character in alpine mountaineering! You have created a video full of facts, love and dignity, thank you so much for it!

@ericdrent8858 Год назад

Impressive!

@matz1955 Год назад

Wandzia Love!

@JavierBonillaC Год назад

Very good video; very relevant photos. Thank you!!!

@shinesports722 Год назад

#DangValley ❣️🇳🇵

@shinesports722 Год назад

Rip

@FaisalKhan-jg6kg Год назад

Thanks so much, great video and commentary

@fatalexception1269 Год назад

17:43 - Great video. One small error - The image of Cho Oyu actually appears to be Dhaulagiri?

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

Yes, it’s Dhaulagiri. Thanks for pointing it out.

@phil5888 Год назад

Her body was found by Simone Moro in 1995. Is there a book dealing with the history of Polish mountaineering?

@epicadventurearchives Год назад

It was actually the body of Yordanka Dimitrova, a Bulgarian climber who had been caught by an avalanche on the southwest face of Kangchenjunga in October 1994. During the identification process, Bulgarian-made tablets were found in one of her pockets.

@phil5888 Год назад

@@epicadventurearchives They need to update Italian wikipedia.

@KowalskyLeon Год назад

Her body has not been found, like of Kukuczka. They both live forever in the mountains they loved so much.

@kirkmattoon2594 Год назад

Banned for anemia but accepted a few months later? If this happened these days it would be assumed the climber used EPO. I have never heard that EPO was used so long ago, but might it have been? I have no wish to downrate such an admirable and genuinely remarkable athlete, but was EPO in fact available in those days?

@garymacmillan Год назад

What she told Carlos as he descended , what she did not have, made her decision to press on extremely reckless. A great shame. Not an unfamiliar story on the mountain.