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Dr. Magdalena Arcimowicz has summited K2!

A collage of three photos. In the first, a woman in a green sweater and black pants sits on the side of a snowy mountain. In the background is the summit of K2. In the second, a person dressed in a red climbing suit looks at the summit. In the third, a woman wearing glasses smiles at the photo, holding a diploma in her hands.
She is an expert in rhinolaryngology and works daily in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery UCC MUW. Mountains have always been her passion. On July 27, she became the fourth Polish woman in history to climb 8611 meters above sea level and summit K2.

K2, an eight-thousander, the highest peak in the Karakorum mountain chain, is the second-highest peak on Earth. It is located on the border of China and Pakistan. It is considered the most dangerous and difficult eight-thousander to climb, among other things, due to the weather there. And as Dr. Magdalena Arcimowicz emphasized in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza, the weather conditions during her expedition were very bad. Climbing was hampered by snowfall, strong winds and limited visibility. Fortunately, it was possible. The route to the top of the mountain was covered by Dr. Arcimowicz in a team of nine climbers from different parts of the world and accompanied by a Sherpa.
Dr. Arcimowicz made her first high-mountain expedition in 2009. She has already climbed, among others, six-thousanders in South America and seven-thousanders - Kyrgyzstan and the Indian Himalayas. Before K2, she climbed another eight-thousander - Makalu, located in the High Himalayas. And it was after conquering it that she began preparations for the K2 expedition.
The K2 eight-thousander was conquered in 1954. The first Pole and the first woman on K2 was Wanda Rutkiewicz, who stood on the summit on June 23, 1986. Dr. Arcimowicz is the fourth Polish woman who can boast of achieving this success!
 
Based on Gazeta Wyborcza materials
Photo: Dr. Arcimowicz own archive

A collage of two photos. In the first, a person in a red jumpsuit is climbing a ladder up a snowy vertical mountain face. In the second photo, two people in red overalls, wearing hats, are smiling at the camera. They are on the slope of a snowy mountain.
The view from the orange tent over the snow-capped mountain ranges. Blue sky in the background.