Challenge the Vertical

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Challenge the Vertical. Challenge the vertical – is an autobiographical book by Jerzy Kukuczka, previously under the title My vertical world. The reedited publication returns after many years on the English language market. The book, with a refreshed layout, supplemented with unique photos from Jerzy Kukuczka’s archive and extended to include new contents.

It’s full of passion, commitment and dedication to mountains. It presents his way to climb all fourteen eight-thousenders, his emotional attitude to mountains and his climbing partners and a brief outline of Poland of that time and the situation the Polish Himalayan mountaineering developed in. But above all, it introduce