Andrzej Czok (11 November 1948 – 11 January 1986) was a Polish mountaineer best known for making the first winter ascent of Dhaulagiri on 21 January 1985 with

Jerzy Kukuczka Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (; 24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man (after Reinhold Messner) to climb all 14 eight-thousand ...

, and for the first ascent of the South Pillar route on

Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...

in 1980 (also with Kukuczka). He suffered a pulmonary oedema while making a winter attempt on

Kangchenjunga Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Its summit lies at in a section of the Himalayas, the ''Kangchenjunga Himal'', which is bounded in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak River and Jongsang La, and ...

in 1985–86 and died at Camp III. He was buried nearby in a crevasse.

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MountEverest.net Polish mountaineering timeline
1948 births 1986 deaths Mountaineering deaths Polish mountain climbers Polish summiters of Mount Everest Sportspeople from Zabrze {{climbing-bio-stub Deaths on Kangchenjunga

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