{"id":254117,"date":"2025-09-25T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254117\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:34:16","slug":"in-a-first-polish-climber-skis-down-everest-without-supplemental-oxygen-mount-everest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254117\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, Polish climber skis down Everest without supplemental oxygen | Mount Everest News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrzej Bargiel, braving heavy snowfall, glided down the world\u2019s highest mountain on his third attempt.<\/p>\n

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Poland\u2019s Andrzej Bargiel has become the first climber to ski down the world\u2019s highest mountain without supplemental oxygen, his team and expedition organiser say.<\/p>\n

Bargiel glided down Mount Everest\u2019s snowy slopes after reaching the summit of the 8,849-metre (29,032ft) mountain on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am on top of the highest mountain in the world, and I\u2019m going to descend it on skis,\u201d Bargiel said in a video taken before his descent and posted on Instagram early on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Everest has seen a handful of ski descents but never a continuous downhill without additional oxygen.<\/p>\n

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Pierwszy w historii zjazd na nartach ze szczytu Mount Everestu bez u\u017cycia dodatkowego tlenu \u26f7\ufe0f\ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f <\/p>\n

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Ogromne podzi\u0119kowania dla teamu Seven Summit Treks, Chang Dawa, Speed Dawa \u2013 bez Was ten sukces nie by\u0142by mo\u017cliwy \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Andrzej Bargiel (@JedrekBargiel) September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 2000, Slovenian Davorin Karnicar made the first full ski descent from Everest\u2019s summit to base camp using bottled oxygen.<\/p>\n

Chhang Dawa Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks, which organised the latest expedition, said Bargiel skied down to Camp 2, spent a night and then reached the base camp on skis the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was extremely challenging, and no one had done it before,\u201d Sherpa told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

Heavy snowfall forced Bargiel to spend 16 hours above 8,000 metres (26,250ft), known as the \u201cdeath zone\u201d because thin air and low oxygen levels heighten the risk of altitude sickness.<\/p>\n

He was greeted with a khada, a traditional Buddhist scarf, when he arrived at the base camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cSky is the limit? Not for Poles! Andrzej Bargiel has just skied down Mount Everest,\u201d Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted on X.<\/p>\n

Bargiel\u2019s team said in a statement that he had made history and called it a \u201cgroundbreaking milestone in the world of ski mountaineering\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bargiel started eyeing Everest a year after he became the first person to ski down Pakistan\u2019s K2, the second highest mountain in the world, in 2018.<\/p>\n

But a dangerous overhanging serac forced him to abandon his 2019 attempt. He returned in 2022, but high winds hindered his plans.<\/p>\n

The daredevil adventurer has been on a quest to make ski descents of the highest mountains in the world under his Hic Sunt Leones project, a Latin phrase for \u201chere are lions\u201d and used to refer to uncharted territories.<\/p>\n

In Pakistan, he has skied down all four of Karakoram\u2019s mountains that are higher than 8,000 metres and also skied off Nepal\u2019s Manaslu and Shishapangma in Tibet.<\/p>\n

Autumn expeditions on Everest are rare because of snowier terrain, shorter and colder days and a narrow summit window compared with the busy spring.<\/p>\n