MOUNTAINEER

Jerzy Kukuczka

1948 - 1989

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Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (Polish: [ˈju.zɛf ˈjɛ.ʐɨ kuˈkut͡ʂ.ka]; 24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer who is widely regarded one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man (after Reinhold Messner) to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world; a feat which took him less than 8 years to accomplish. He climbed all, except Lhotse, by new routes or in winter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerzy Kukuczka has received more than 533,207 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Kukuczka is the 8th most popular mountaineer (down from 6th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Poland (down from 156th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Mountaineer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Jerzy Kukuczka ranks 8 out of 56. Before him are Reinhold Messner, Tenzing Norgay, Heinrich Harrer, George Mallory, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, and Junko Tabei. After him are Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, Jacques Balmat, Walter Bonatti, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Achille Compagnoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jerzy Kukuczka ranks 64. Before him are Rory Gallagher, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Bille August, Claude Jade, Svetlana Savitskaya, and Lluís Llach. After him are William Gibson, Edmund Kemper, Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, Radomir Antić, and Alan Parsons. Among people deceased in 1989, Jerzy Kukuczka ranks 45. Before him are Danilo Kiš, William Shockley, John Cassavetes, Bruce Chatwin, Leon Festinger, and Cornel Wilde. After him are Irving Berlin, Antonia Brico, John Payne, Gaetano Scirea, Guy Williams, and Ahmadou Ahidjo.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Kukuczka ranks 220 out of 1,694. Before him are Yisrael Kristal (1903), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), and Leszek Kołakowski (1927). After him are Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Hans Modrow (1928), Felix Hausdorff (1868), and Samuel Reshevsky (1911).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Poland

Among mountaineers born in Poland, Jerzy Kukuczka ranks 1. After him are Krzysztof Wielicki (1950).

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