La historia de Wanda Rutkiewicz

I will die on the mountain, said Wanda Rutkiewicz. And she kept her word. On May 12, 1992, she died in the Kangchenjunga, in the Himalayas. It had to be his ninth eight thousand. No one witnessed his death, no one heard his last words, no one found his body. His disappearance, like so many other events in his life, to this day remains a mystery. Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943-1992), the most outstanding Polish mountaineer of all time, climbed nine of the highest peaks on Earth. She was the first woman in K2 and the first European in Everest. As a child she was known for her tenacity, but she had to mature quickly. She carried the burden of a complicated family environment. Even so, life always chose leading roles for Wanda: she studied electronics because she was passionate about cybernetics, she was a professional volleyball player and a great mountaineer. When she did not feel valued she did everything possible to show that she was the best, Wanda used to repeat that for her that was like gasoline to live on. It had been like this since her childhood, too short, perhaps that is why she lived from expedition to expedition, without ties, seeking eternal freedom.