WINTER EXPEDITION K2 2020/21

In the winter of 2020/21, I returned to K2, this time as the filmmaker accompanying climber Magdalena Gorzkowska. With my camera, I reached an altitude of 6,600 meters, my personal winter record on K2.

During this historic expedition, I witnessed the triumph of the Nepalese team, who on January 16 made the first-ever winter ascent of K2.

At the same time, tragedy struck lower on the mountain. The Spanish climber Sergi Mingote lost his life after being struck by a rock and falling to the base of the wall. On February 5, Bulgarian climber Atanas Skatov died while descending from Camp III.

That same day, three climbers: Juan Pablo Mohr (Chile), John Snorri (Iceland), and Ali Sadpara (Pakistan), attempted a summit push. All three disappeared in circumstances that remain unclear to this day.

The story of this expedition is told in my short documentary “K2: Mountain of Remembrance” (K2: Góra Pamięci).