Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (born 1948)

Andrzej Czok

Polish mountaineer (1948–1986)

Andrzej Czok was a Polish mountaineer best known for making the first winter ascent of Dhaulagiri on 21 January 1985 with Jerzy Kukuczka, and for the first ascent of the South Pillar route on Mount Everest in 1980. He suffered a pulmonary oedema while making a winter attempt on…