Maciej Berbeka

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Maciej Berbeka (17 October 1954, Zakopane, Poland – 6 March 2013, Broad Peak, Baltistan) was a Polish mountaineer, mountain guide^[1] UIAGM and member of TOPR. He and his teammate Tomasz Kowalski went missing on 6 March 2013 as they were descending from Broad Peak. They were declared dead two days later.^[2]

Berbeka's accomplishments include making the first winter ascents of Manaslu, on 12 January 1984, with Ryszard Gajewski; of Cho Oyu, on 12 February 1985, with Maciej Pawlikowski; and of Broad Peak, on 5 March 2013 with Adam Bielecki, Tomasz Kowalski and Artur Małek. He also climbed and summited Annapurna and Mount Everest. He was also the first person to reach 8000 m in Karakoram - Rocky Summit (8028 m) in the winter of 1988, on 6 March. This had occurred exactly 25 years before to the day when he was reported missing.

References

↑ American Alpine Journal, 1994. The Mountaineers Books. 1994. p. 274. ISBN 9780930410582. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
↑ "Broad Peak: all hope lost for Maciej Berbeka and Tomasz Kowalski". Planetmountain. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2013.

Persondata
Name	Berbeka, Maciej
Alternative names
Short description	Polish mountaineer
Date of birth	17 October 1954
Place of birth	Zakopane, Poland
Date of death	6 March 2013
Place of death	Broad Peak, Baltistan (pronounced missing)

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