On 16 October 1978, Wanda Rutkiewicz reached the summit of Mount Everest. She was the first person from Poland, the first European woman and only the third woman in the world to stand on the highest point on Earth. Yet her journey to the Himalayas had begun many years earlier, in Wrocław. It was there that she grew up, went to school and university, played sport and worked. And it was there that she discovered climbing, the pursuit that would co…
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