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Wojciech Kurtyka, master of Polish climbing on his way to a peak of Tango Tower, photo: E. Loretan, 1988
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Wojciech Kurtyka (also Voytek Kurtyka, born 20 September 1947, in Skrzynka near Kłodzko) is a Polish mountaineer and rock climber, one of the pioneers of the alpine style of climbing the biggest walls in the Greater Ranges. Kurtyka became well known abroad in early 1973 after achieving the first winter ascent of Trollveggen in Norway, the highest vertical cliff on the continent. His teammates were such world-class Himalayan climbers as, among others, Alex MacIntyre, Jerzy Kukuczka, Dough Scott, Erhard Loreta, Reinhold Messner and others.
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