Polish Ski Mountaineer Makes Skiing History

28th July 2023

Andrzej Bargiel is the first person to climb and ski down the summits of all the 8,000m peaks in Karakoram.

In 2018 he skied down K2 (8,611m) and news spread round the ski mountaineering community.

PlanetSKI was in Chamonix at the time with the British mountaineer, Alan Hinkes, who has climbed K2 and the other 8,000m peaks in the Himalayas.

Alan is the first, and remains the only, British mountaineer to have climbed all 14 Himalayan eight-thousanders.

Our editor, James Cove, spoke to him about Andrzej Bargiel’s K2 achievement.