Tranquil Kilimanjaro

Remembering Jerzy Kukuczka,

Today marks 33 years since Polish mountaineer Jerzy Kukuczka passed away while climbing Lhotse on October 24, 1989. A true legend of high-altitude Himalayan mountaineering, Kukuczka was the second person, after Reinhold Messner, to ascend all fourteen Eight-thousanders.