Anna Czerwinska

Anna Czerwińska (born July 10, 1949 in Warsaw) is a Polish mountaineer and is D.S. (Pharmacy), but left medical science for the mountains. She has been climbing for 33 years, usually in all-women teams. She has also published several books about mountaineering.

In summer 1977 with Krystyna Palmowska she climbed the North Face of the Matterhorn. This was the first time women climbed such a difficult wall.

In 1978 with Krystyna Palmowska, Wanda Rutkiewicz and Irena Kesa she climbed the North Face of the Matterhorn in winter. Again they were the first women to succeed and it created a sensation in the European mountaineering world.

Anna Czerwińska was a member of the Polish Gasherbrums Expedition in 1975.

In 1979 with Krystyna Palmowska she climbed a new route, Rakaposhi (7788 m), in Pakistan.

On June 30, 1983 she and Krystyna Palmowska climbed Broad Peak.

Czerwińska tried to reach the top of K2 three times: in 1982, 1984 and 1986, the last time she was a witness to tragedy when 13 climbers died on the mountain.

On July 15, 1985 she was on the summit of Nanga Parbat with Wanda Rutkiewicz and Krystyna Palmowska - the first women team on the top without support of men.

She tried two times to climb Kanchenjunga: in 1980 and in 1990 as a leader of the expedition.

Eight-thousanders:
1983 - Broad Peak-Rocky Summit (not considered as independent eight-thousander)
1985 - Nanga Parbat
2000 - Mount Everest
2000 - Shisha Pangma (Central-Peak)
2001 - Lhotse
2001 - Cho Oyu
2003 - Gasherbrum II
2006 - Makalu

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