Andrzej Bargiel

Andrzej Michał Bargiel (born 18 April 1988 in Łętownia) of the TKN Tatra Team is a Polish ski mountaineer, mountain runner and climber. He is the current record holder in taking the least amount of time to achieve the Snow Leopard award. He is also the current record holder for the Elbrus Race (in 2010, extreme route, 3:23:37). In September 2014, Bargiel set a record time climbing from base camp to the summit of Manaslu in 14 hours 5 minutes. He also set a record time for base-peak-base at 21 hours 14 minutes.^[1] In July 2018, he completed his ascent of K2 and was the first ever to ski from the summit. He currently lives in Zakopane.^{[2] [3]} He climbs in the sport style, without the support of bottled oxygen.

Selected results

• 2009:
  • 8th, 2009 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering relay race (together with Szymon Zachwieja, Jacek Żebracki and Mariusz Wargocki)
• 2010:
  • 9th, Pierra Menta (together with Peter Svätojánsky)
  • 10th ("ISMF men" ranking), Patrouille des Glaciers together with Jacek Żylka-Żebracki and Mariusz Wargocki^[4]
  • 1st - record on Elbrus Race (Extreme route, 3:23:37)
• 2013:
  • Shishapangma central summit (from the summit on skis)
• 2014:
  • Manaslu
• 2015:
  • Broad Peak (from the summit on skis)
• 2016:
  • Winning the Snow Leopard award in record time - 29 days 17 hours 5 minutes from the start of the ABC July 15
    • Lenin Peak - July 16 (ascent from Advanced BC at the height of 4400 meters to the summit in 13 hours 30 minutes and exit from the summit on skis to ABC in 2 hours).
    • Peak Korzhenevskaya - July 25 (ascent from Moskvina BC at the height of 4350 meters to the summit in 8 hours 40 minutes; exit from the summit on skis for the snow line and the descent to the base camp).
    • Ismoil Somoni Peak - August 2 (ascent from Moskvina BC at the height of 4350 meters to the summit in 14 hours 25 minutes; exit from the summit on skis for the snow line and the descent to the base camp).
    • Khan Tengri - August 10 (ascent from the South Inylchek BC at an altitude of 4070 meters to the summit in 8 hours 17 minutes; descent on skis from an altitude of about 6300 m).
    • Jengish Chokusu - August 14, 12:35 local time, descent on skis.
• 2017, May 21 - Skiing Mallory's Couloir of the north face Aiguille du Midi
• 2018, July 22 - First man in history to ski from the summit of K2 to base camp without removing skis. ^[5]

External links

• Andrzej Bargiel at Skimountaineering.org

References