In reply to catherine4331:
> Anyone who has enjoyed that article should definitely check out Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald, it's pretty incredible (and completely nuts, the Poles were certainly cut from a different cloth)
I found it quite sobering, in reading about the high death rate of the Polish mountaineers of that era, and the life trajectory of Wanda Rutkiewicz, but it's an interesting and inspiring book too.
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