Piotr Morawski

Piotr Morawski (* December 27, 1976, † April 8, 2009 at Dhaulagiri ) was a Polish mountaineer. His greatest achievement was the first winter of Shishapangma in 2005 together with Simone Moro. He died from a fall into a crevasse at about 5760 m on Dhaulagiri.

Eight thousand ascents

Overall Morawski could reach the top of an eight -thousand- six times. He was a regular mountain partner of Peter Hámor and Piotr Pustelnik. The "Three Peters " ( German: "Three Peter" ) usually tried to get to the highest mountains in the world have little or committed new routes.

After he reached the summit of Shishapangma Cho Oyu and the Broad Peak, as well as the eastern summit of Annapurna in 2006. On Broad Peak, he first had to abort his summit bid to help the members of an Austrian expedition in mountain rescue. Sepp Bachmair was able to be saved; Markus Kronthaler help came too late. Two days later Morawski nonetheless reached the summit alone. A year later he ascended the Nanga Parbat via the Diamir face. In 2008, his ascent of Gasherbrum II succeeded neighboring exceeding the Gasherbrum I, and