This is how a man who has Polish friends pronounces the names of Polish people and places 🥰 Thank you so much for making the effort. To say you've done well is such an understatement! 👍
The climbing of four peaks in winter, coupled with new, more difficult routes on many 8000 meter peak, just demonstrates how extraordinary Jerzy was. RIP.
Jerzy was THE MAN, climbed two 8000's in winter and had to traverse a high mountain pass through deep snow between Dhaulagiri and Cho Oyu because it was the quickest way to get to Base camp. Overall old school badass dude.
Like Messner said he was second to none. He was great. His accomplishments will never be matched. I think his greatest route was the so face of K2. Never been repeated or even tried again. A bold difficult incredibly dangerous route. His book is one of my favorites. RIP Gallant warrior
Really Jan. I did see interview with Messner I think after Kuckuka finished the 14 list. It was years ago. I was in Himalayas climbing back in 89 when we heard news he fell on Lhotse so face. We kept trying to believe it wasn't true. I always thought he was equal to Messner but the solo climb of Everest all alone Reinhold did in 1980 put him just above Jerzy. Either way they're both great!!!
Jerzy made such great accomplishments in his short life. Sometimes I get so awed by and impressed by climbers I just have to tell my husband even though he knows nothing about mountain climbing other than having seen some of the most beautiful in the world. If I weren't disabled and had the money I would absolutely take up mountain climbing. Not to try summit the mountains, but just to experience them and their unique beauty. Just getting halfway up would give you breathtaking views, although being able to see the world from the top like Everest is enough to make be tear up when I see photos of the utter beauty. It's a shame you have no time to just bask in that unique scenery, but you see similar beauty in other mountain ranges.
I was thinking the same thing. Really well done. I can't tell you how many other creators in general just say "sorry if I mispronounce", and then COMPLETELY botch whatever word/name without care.
Yet Terror Twin it's Biv-O-Wac. French for Mistake 😂😂 That was said in a climbing Bio and I never forgot it. But I was in the Military and that is how you pronounce it correctly and it kills me everytime I hear you murder it 😅
Imagine if this man got help funding his climbs. How much more he would have accomplished, how much faster. And he wouldn't have died due to faulty equipment so who knows how far he could go. All I know is, in terms of ability he is up there with the best to ever do it like Messner, Anatoli, Steck etc.
I have been watching and studying climbing and climbers for some time now and Jerzy Kukuczka is undoubtedly the best of the best! He wanted to climb so much and he thought his abilities would overcome inferior equipment as money was apparently an issue for him! Sad that a faulty rope may have been his downfall! Wonder if the man that sold it to him knew it may not hold!
Not only were the Polish climbers of that era “total badasses,” some did it with basic gear and post-war surplus clothing, not the high-end, technically advanced, sponsor-logo-ed suits used today. Tough, brilliant mountaineers.
He was always strapped for cash. That is why he bought a cheap back rope in the Kathmandu market, rather than pay much more for a rope from a better known (?) place.
Nice to see comments commending such a passionate man, instead of calling him crazy, nuts, selfish, suicidal, etc etc. He LIVED to climb, and he died to climb. We all die eventually! But most people are only focused on how long (in years) they can 'survive'. His wife surely married him understanding his passion. That was HER choice to marry him. I say "Congratulations" to him for following his dreams. How proud his son must be. Hundreds and thousands of men and women in history died exploring and achieving what others were unable (too scared?) to do... astronauts, explorers of new lands, deep sea divers, doctors/researchers, and so on. I envy them all. They died LIVING their dreams. How about the rest of us?
What a climber! I read his autobiography "My Vertical World" some twenty years back. What I remember most clearly is a photograph of his wife. She had a "haunted" look in her eyes, as though she knew that, one day, her husband would lose his wife in the mountains. RIP, great man.
Such a great climber and man, yet another climber gone to soon. I wish some day to read about a great climber who did all things great and retired. Seems like they all do these incredible things but in the end die doing it. It's just sad.
On the south face of Lhotse, literally ONE bad move or unexpected mishap, and you're done. They should have pulled the plug as soon as the rope mishap happened.
This is so Sad about Mountaineering that after the climbers have reached all of their Goals one should really take it easy because it's a DANGEROUS ENDEAVOR they R undertaking so sometimes they MUST know when 2 say, ENOUGH now let's just enjoy the accomplishments !! 😢😢
Not how it works, your ego just get bigger, and make you want do more, especially what no one else has done before, you think I , want to be the one to do that.
@@beverlyrhame3692I think there was so many risk takers as the world was different. there was little to none of safety regulations like it's now. you could die at work , fall or being crashed and be forgotten or do something extreme and be remembered forever. All you have to do is to look at the sport back then.
There are many videos about mountain climbing on the internet, but no one ever says how do these people urinate and deficate with all those other people in front and back of them in the line.
Some of the high camps on the big mountains stink of shit. There are lumps of shit scattered on the face and it doesn’t decompose at high altitude. It takes about a year for human shit to decompose. Sherpas carry shot down to the closest villages to get rid of. At least Sherpas aren’t getting killed doing the dangerous work for these selfish braggarts who put a summit picture Above the lives of the Sherpa guides.
But this is a real climber. Not a tourist climber. If they were to not be selfish braggarts and trek the mountains instead I’d have no issues mate. Having a fake “Wish” to climb a big mountain is bullshit.
Hi, Terror Twin, thank you for sharing Jerzy's story. I am such a cowardly non-adventurer and so fearful of heights that I almost had a dizzy spell on the 2nd rung of the playground "Jungle Jim." (Do playgrounds still have Jungle Jims?) Lately I've been binge-watching mountaineering stories, and I confess to an amateur's attitude that "If you've seen one mountain, you've seen them all." The stories are all so similar. Unpredictable bad weather. There is no such thing as unpredictable bad weather. All weather is unpredictable. Avalanche. (On a mountain? You're kidding.) Climbing into a storm. But why? So I had begun to develop armchair cynicism. Please, dear deceased climber, explain to us again why you chose to leave us in this manner. Because it's better than a nursing home? I was becoming jaded. But suddenly, somehow, this story of Jerzy felt deeply human and uniquely moving and I began to cry. The ominous detail about purchasing a second-hand rope in a poor community where the populace must eke out a living seemed to forecast disaster. The names of the mountains are more familiar to me than the names of the climbers, but I will never forget Jerzy. And I don't know why.
@@VCthaGOATdunker - I remain mystified by the phenomenon mountaineers call "summit fever." If the phrase, "adrenaline junkies" refers to a genuine addiction, a chemical alteration in the brain, then maybe mountaineers must climb until they die. I often think of Rob Hall waiting with the postal worker because he would never leave a client alone in the Death Zone. I can almost see them there now. It touches me deeply.
Some just aren't destined to die driving to/from work. Not everyone can die in a car wreck, or make it to old age and cancer, heart attack, or simply forget who they are and waste away in diapers and dimensia.
It's like a moth coming too close to the flame, or like playing Russian Roulette, these elite climbers are gamblers tempting fate. RIP Jerzy, was greatness like none other.
most of the photos used here are not of Jurek. his body was never recovered. he and Paolosky never climbed on a fixed roap. They took only a 50 meter rope for belay.
Calling people 'freaks' because they choose to become mountaineers. 👎It's not for me either, but it is THEIR CHOICE & THEIR LIFE & doesn't justify name calling. Very mature 👌
Hardly fitness freaks. There's still plenty who walk right up to base camp on Mt. Rainer. The separation from regular folk to these is the need to see that next horizon line. Over that ridge. To be the first human to set eye. Set feet. To be one of the few. -- I'm sure there are some with far less romantic notions, but typically these people have multiple degrees and many scientists and engineers who you'd otherwise make fun of enjoy peaks in WA CO and AK the Alps, Chilie etc. Your world isn't as small as you make it. As far as dying: people insist office worker carry laptops to work. How many people die on the way to and from work everyday? Moms that will never see their babies again. Because they had to bring a laptop to an office. ---- Not everyone is destined to grow so old to be back in a diaper and not remember the faces around you. - Dying on a remote and beautiful spot on earth isn't the worst death. I would say forcing your family to watch you lose your mind to dimensia or althtimers is much worse. To witness your body waste away as its eaten from cancer while you beg for life and at the end death? Or dead on a mountain top, too young and doing what you love.--- odd. What our society covets.
@@Galaxie08 fitness freak is a term to describe someone with an all consuming need to exercise, a passion. I'd have thought the Russian roulette, coin toss gamble with life and death consequences, as is the reality of top level climbing, would have been more upsetting. Though telling the kids "Mum / Dad just died climbing today, it was just a matter of time so don't be sad, it was what they truly loved" now that's freakish. Cheer up.
No, not Reinhold Messner. Having lost his brother early on on Nanga Parbat, he knew when the risks were not worth it. In one of his books on the Great Walls, right at the end he has a photo of the North Face (Wall of Shadows) of Jannu; perhaps the most fearsome climb anywhere. It would appear Messner knew well enough to stay away from Jannu.
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This is how a man who has Polish friends pronounces the names of Polish people and places 🥰 Thank you so much for making the effort. To say you've done well is such an understatement! 👍
The climbing of four peaks in winter, coupled with new, more difficult routes on many 8000 meter peak, just demonstrates how extraordinary Jerzy was. RIP.
Sounds like he was really good. How comes he died young whole climbing? Cheers
Jerzy was THE MAN, climbed two 8000's in winter and had to traverse a high mountain pass through deep snow between Dhaulagiri and Cho Oyu because it was the quickest way to get to Base camp. Overall old school badass dude.
Like Messner said he was second to none. He was great. His accomplishments will never be matched. I think his greatest route was the so face of K2. Never been repeated or even tried again. A bold difficult incredibly dangerous route. His book is one of my favorites. RIP Gallant warrior
Messner himself is as legendary as they come!!!
Really? I seriously never heard Meisner say anything like that about him! I have watched tons of old climbing bios and near have I heard of him 🤷♀️
Really Jan. I did see interview with Messner I think after Kuckuka finished the 14 list. It was years ago. I was in Himalayas climbing back in 89 when we heard news he fell on Lhotse so face. We kept trying to believe it wasn't true. I always thought he was equal to Messner but the solo climb of Everest all alone Reinhold did in 1980 put him just above Jerzy. Either way they're both great!!!
Thank you for sharing this, he deserves the recognition. His climbs are unparalleled.
Completely Agree! Thank you for watching!
Great video mate! Mad respect for your pronouciation of Polish names, it's spot on!
Jerzy made such great accomplishments in his short life. Sometimes I get so awed by and impressed by climbers I just have to tell my husband even though he knows nothing about mountain climbing other than having seen some of the most beautiful in the world. If I weren't disabled and had the money I would absolutely take up mountain climbing. Not to try summit the mountains, but just to experience them and their unique beauty. Just getting halfway up would give you breathtaking views, although being able to see the world from the top like Everest is enough to make be tear up when I see photos of the utter beauty. It's a shame you have no time to just bask in that unique scenery, but you see similar beauty in other mountain ranges.
Real nice. Thanks for sharing.
The Pole Jerzy Kukuczka is the best mountaineer ever.
"I was not on that mountain so I don't have the right to judge". Very wise words I'm gonna take this with me.
😊😊😊
Word! Something to keep in mind...🤔👍🏽💯🌹
Niech spoczywa w pokoju.
I can tell youve put a lot of effort into learning how to pronounce his name, you did very well
I was thinking the same thing. Really well done. I can't tell you how many other creators in general just say "sorry if I mispronounce", and then COMPLETELY botch whatever word/name without care.
The amount of attempts it took, whew...I am happy you noticed!
Indeed! That earned my sub
Yet Terror Twin it's Biv-O-Wac. French for Mistake 😂😂 That was said in a climbing Bio and I never forgot it. But I was in the Military and that is how you pronounce it correctly and it kills me everytime I hear you murder it 😅
Imagine if this man got help funding his climbs. How much more he would have accomplished, how much faster. And he wouldn't have died due to faulty equipment so who knows how far he could go. All I know is, in terms of ability he is up there with the best to ever do it like Messner, Anatoli, Steck etc.
What a beast! Incredibly skilled, driven and motivated. An awesome life, lived to the fullest. 🌹
I am an armchair mountaineer. Too old and health issues. I love all these mountaineering videos
Well done. You gave him and all other climbers the honor they deserve. 💚
I have been watching and studying climbing and climbers for some time now and Jerzy Kukuczka is undoubtedly the best of the best! He wanted to climb so much and he thought his abilities would overcome inferior equipment as money was apparently an issue for him! Sad that a faulty rope may have been his downfall! Wonder if the man that sold it to him knew it may not hold!
Not only were the Polish climbers of that era “total badasses,” some did it with basic gear and post-war surplus clothing, not the high-end, technically advanced, sponsor-logo-ed suits used today. Tough, brilliant mountaineers.
Best of the best. R.I.P Jurek🙏
Well done. Very respectful.
Thank you!
jerzy such a legend
The accomplishments are not always worth the end result 🥀
It usually is to them
@@marcywalters524 yup I'm sure that's what his widowed wife and fatherless kids were thinking too... I have zero sympathy for dead climbers
This was a very good presentation of Kukuczka , Thank you
Many climbers have died by trusting used ropes of unknown age and origin.
It almost scared me to death to realize how fragile the rops actually are. Some tiny bits of sand or dirt and a new rope tears down very fast.
I heard once frozen they snap?
He was always strapped for cash. That is why he bought a cheap back rope in the Kathmandu market, rather than pay much more for a rope from a better known (?) place.
Nice to see comments commending such a passionate man, instead of calling him crazy, nuts, selfish, suicidal, etc etc. He LIVED to climb, and he died to climb. We all die eventually! But most people are only focused on how long (in years) they can 'survive'. His wife surely married him understanding his passion. That was HER choice to marry him. I say "Congratulations" to him for following his dreams. How proud his son must be. Hundreds and thousands of men and women in history died exploring and achieving what others were unable (too scared?) to do... astronauts, explorers of new lands, deep sea divers, doctors/researchers, and so on. I envy them all. They died LIVING their dreams. How about the rest of us?
I’ll stick to watching this on my couch
What a climber! I read his autobiography "My Vertical World" some twenty years back. What I remember most clearly is a photograph of his wife. She had a "haunted" look in her eyes, as though she knew that, one day, her husband would lose his wife in the mountains. RIP, great man.
Guy is a legend...can you imagine just climbing the Lhotse face let alone the unclimbed side
Such a great climber and man, yet another climber gone to soon. I wish some day to read about a great climber who did all things great and retired. Seems like they all do these incredible things but in the end die doing it. It's just sad.
Love your story telling. Great job
This guy really was working for the weekend.
May he rest in peace. I followed him many years.❤.
On the south face of Lhotse, literally ONE bad move or unexpected mishap, and you're done. They should have pulled the plug as soon as the rope mishap happened.
One bad decision after another, it's the mountaineering mantra.
It's an adrenaline addiction. They literally can't stop
the way you pronounce “ Grandes jurasses” craaaaazy!!!
R I P we miss you!
The most famous mountaineer climbed one mountain and everybody is still looking up at him
Nice sharing
I think you said "hospitable" instead of "inhospitable" at 6:27, but maybe it's meant to be ironic. Thanks for the story.
Now this is climbing!!!
This is so Sad about Mountaineering that after the climbers have reached all of their Goals one should really take it easy because it's a DANGEROUS ENDEAVOR they R undertaking so sometimes they MUST know when 2 say, ENOUGH now let's just enjoy the accomplishments !! 😢😢
Not how it works, your ego just get bigger, and make you want do more, especially what no one else has done before, you think I , want to be the one to do that.
@@beverlyrhame3692I think there was so many risk takers as the world was different.
there was little to none of safety regulations like it's now.
you could die at work , fall or being crashed and be forgotten or do something extreme and be remembered forever.
All you have to do is to look at the sport back then.
I call him, "Jersey", like "New Jersey". Ueli Steck died on Nuptse, on April 30, 2017.
6:28- should say some of the most INHOSPITABLE instead of “hospitable”
Great video! I can’t help myself with grammar stuff I’m sorry.
An adventurous life is one risk assessment after another.
Really unfortunate that he didn't have a sponsor to help with equipment costs. Really tough to swallow that he died because of rope issues. R.I.P.
I was in Poland during those years, and it was extremely poor. Just to get a loaf of bread there was a line of people almost two blocks long!
6:28 I think you meant hostile, not hospitable :) awesome video! Thank you for the effort
There are many videos about mountain climbing on the internet, but no one ever says how do these people urinate and deficate with all those other people in front and back of them in the line.
It's a shit mountain haha
Astronaut diaper.
Some of the high camps on the big mountains stink of shit. There are lumps of shit scattered on the face and it doesn’t decompose at high altitude. It takes about a year for human shit to decompose. Sherpas carry shot down to the closest villages to get rid of. At least Sherpas aren’t getting killed doing the dangerous work for these selfish braggarts who put a summit picture Above the lives of the Sherpa guides.
But this is a real climber. Not a tourist climber. If they were to not be selfish braggarts and trek the mountains instead I’d have no issues mate. Having a fake “Wish” to climb a big mountain is bullshit.
They just excuse themselves, drop to the end of the line, and keep their rear end facing away from the crowd!
Hi, Terror Twin, thank you for sharing Jerzy's story. I am such a cowardly non-adventurer and so fearful of heights that I almost had a dizzy spell on the 2nd rung of the playground "Jungle Jim." (Do playgrounds still have Jungle Jims?) Lately I've been binge-watching mountaineering stories, and I confess to an amateur's attitude that "If you've seen one mountain, you've seen them all." The stories are all so similar. Unpredictable bad weather. There is no such thing as unpredictable bad weather. All weather is unpredictable. Avalanche. (On a mountain? You're kidding.) Climbing into a storm. But why? So I had begun to develop armchair cynicism. Please, dear deceased climber, explain to us again why you chose to leave us in this manner. Because it's better than a nursing home? I was becoming jaded. But suddenly, somehow, this story of Jerzy felt deeply human and uniquely moving and I began to cry. The ominous detail about purchasing a second-hand rope in a poor community where the populace must eke out a living seemed to forecast disaster. The names of the mountains are more familiar to me than the names of the climbers, but I will never forget Jerzy. And I don't know why.
Not cowardly. I would bet a majority of human beings are afraid of heights, having evolved that way to avoid danger.
@@VCthaGOATdunker - I remain mystified by the phenomenon mountaineers call "summit fever." If the phrase, "adrenaline junkies" refers to a genuine addiction, a chemical alteration in the brain, then maybe mountaineers must climb until they die. I often think of Rob Hall waiting with the postal worker because he would never leave a client alone in the Death Zone. I can almost see them there now. It touches me deeply.
Amazing... RIP
Scary interesting to Terror Twin 🗻🗻
Huge Compliment! Thank you!
He died on the most difficult face in the world
Jerzy was a handsome man.
6:28. "Inhospitable"
I'm never sure if these people are the bravest people on the planet or the craziest 😬
I'm not sure there's always a difference, there.
@@Robocopnik Good point 👍
Some just aren't destined to die driving to/from work. Not everyone can die in a car wreck, or make it to old age and cancer, heart attack, or simply forget who they are and waste away in diapers and dimensia.
@@Loralanthalas I totally agree. Horses for courses or each to their own as they say... not for me but kudos to those that dare to do it, I say.
Its not if you'll die doing this, it's when.
Leaves a wife and two kids. Legend climber.
Kukuczka i Kurtyka to przykłady wspaniałych ludzi .
“shady business practices” there must’ve been a reason that was mentioned. Like to hear more about it
It's like a moth coming too close to the flame, or like playing Russian Roulette, these elite climbers are gamblers tempting fate. RIP Jerzy, was greatness like none other.
He conquered the most "hospitable"places ??? Really? 😂😂 or did you mean " in-hospitable"???
11:34 two eyes a nose and a mouth in the middle, one eye with optical eye gear
So we loose another great one
It feels almost like a wish for something bad to tempt danger so many times
most of the photos used here are not of Jurek. his body was never recovered. he and Paolosky never climbed on a fixed roap. They took only a 50 meter rope for belay.
Possible poor quality imitation rope/parts?
Used 6mm rope obtained in Kathmandu.
How precious life can be ?
Why gamble with that life ?
These fanatics all die. Never forget that when you are awed by these climbs
Everyone else who's ever done anything else dies too...no matter what you do, or how you live, your life will end with death...
"greater man"?? A great man does not put his life at risk while having a family that needs him. That is selfish
0:25 Getting deafer at every video
Can you imagine the fear creepin up inside you, after your partner just fell of the mountain ro death. Horrible.
in darkness with wind noises travelling between rocks and no other life .
It's an ego inspired fitness freaks game of Russian roulette, let's go climbing.
Calling people 'freaks' because they choose to become mountaineers. 👎It's not for me either, but it is THEIR CHOICE & THEIR LIFE & doesn't justify name calling.
Very mature 👌
Hardly fitness freaks. There's still plenty who walk right up to base camp on Mt. Rainer. The separation from regular folk to these is the need to see that next horizon line. Over that ridge. To be the first human to set eye. Set feet. To be one of the few. -- I'm sure there are some with far less romantic notions, but typically these people have multiple degrees and many scientists and engineers who you'd otherwise make fun of enjoy peaks in WA CO and AK the Alps, Chilie etc. Your world isn't as small as you make it. As far as dying: people insist office worker carry laptops to work. How many people die on the way to and from work everyday? Moms that will never see their babies again. Because they had to bring a laptop to an office. ---- Not everyone is destined to grow so old to be back in a diaper and not remember the faces around you. - Dying on a remote and beautiful spot on earth isn't the worst death. I would say forcing your family to watch you lose your mind to dimensia or althtimers is much worse. To witness your body waste away as its eaten from cancer while you beg for life and at the end death? Or dead on a mountain top, too young and doing what you love.--- odd. What our society covets.
@@Galaxie08How are you not a freak for blazing routes on insane mountains? Seems freakish to me
@@Galaxie08 fitness freak is a term to describe someone with an all consuming need to exercise, a passion. I'd have thought the Russian roulette, coin toss gamble with life and death consequences, as is the reality of top level climbing, would have been more upsetting. Though telling the kids "Mum / Dad just died climbing today, it was just a matter of time so don't be sad, it was what they truly loved" now that's freakish. Cheer up.
Hospitable means welcoming I believe inhospitable is the word your look for 6:26
He was a great climber, until He wasn't. Wow.
Could you please do the metric conversions for Americans? Thank you
Yes, please
Until this, multiply by 3 that are a good approximation.
Google is your friend.
Never Heard of him! and it's Biv-O-Wack 😊
Not to knit pick but. INhospitable
Lesson: don't use ropes from markets in a 3rd world country, or China. Awful.
Annapurna 2 on the video 4:54
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Maybe if he had some sponsors and could afford proper gear he wouldn't have flown into his death then. Very sad.
I’d say this channel was perfect, except your intro song is hell.
I like the intro song.
His climbing accomplishments were amazing! (Until he died)😒
Didn't hear a single thing on how he had children and shouldn't be climbing. 🙄
People will judge harshly someone who parties with kids...so to do I judge anyone that lets their recreational activities create a fatherless famik6
Yeah, all the best climbers are dead.
No, not Reinhold Messner. Having lost his brother early on on Nanga Parbat, he knew when the risks were not worth it. In one of his books on the Great Walls, right at the end he has a photo of the North Face (Wall of Shadows) of Jannu; perhaps the most fearsome climb anywhere. It would appear Messner knew well enough to stay away from Jannu.
@@ajoybaksi3654 Okay, ya got one! Versus how many others?
Hopefully, his wife had a large life insurance policy on him, since he left her alone with children to raise.
Its pronounced jersey. Not yehrzhay
Not at all, his pronunciation is perfect. He says it the way Jerzy Kukuczka would have said it himself.
your pronunciation of Jerzy is total crap. The rest is perfect ;-)
A victim of his own success.
I was in until you said bivvy-yak. Then everything was clear.
Why would using a rope that broke remind us of what a great climber he was?
F
Before making this video you should have checked how to pronounce correctly his first name.
He clearly did, because his pronunciation is perfect!
2;28...please ,don`t ;;;just get on with the story
Your French name pronunciation is less than convincing
It’s funny that all the “best climbers in history” all have the same thing in common…dying young, WHILE CLIMBING…. 🧗♀️ 🧗♀️ 🧗♀️
I regret nothinggggggggg. Splat.