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• Aleksander Tansman
• Wladyslaw Kedra
• Jan Moll
• Leon Niemczyk
• Jan Karski
• Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
• Jadwiga Andrzejewska
• Artur Partyka
• Michal Wisniewski
• Kiejstut Bacewicz
• Zbigniew Rybczynski
• Wladyslaw Strzeminski
• Grzegorz Filipowski
• Wlodzimierz Smolarek
• Piotr Pustelnik
• Ludwik Benoit
• Wladyslaw Pasikowski
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski

     He was born on July 12, 1951 in Lodz. At the age of 18 he started his climbing career. He went of his first mountain hike and understood that mountains were the best kind of landscape for him. He felt a desire to be like the climbers.

     The beginnings were not easy. He decided to enrol in a climbing course with the Mountaineering Club in Lodz. When he failed the practical assessment, he was  kicked out of the course. He started to practice on his own. He did a lot of climbing in the Tatra Mountains and passed the climbing exam on the second attempt. Then he became an instructor of alpinism.

    In 1980 he went to the Alps. He could do a few major routes (including the eastern face of Mount Blanc) during the trip organized by the Academic Mountain Club in Lodz.

   He had a break in his active climbing until 1985 because of family life and writing a doctoral thesis (chemistry). Because of altitude problems he was not able to climb Pinnacle (6950m). In 1989 he climbed Korzhenevskoy Peak in the Pamir. In 1990 together with Wanda Rutkiewicz he went to the Karakoram - he summited Gasherbrum II (8035m) in a solo climb.

    The 8000-ers summited by Piotr Pustelnik:

• 19 July 1990 r. - Gasherbrum II (8035 m)
• 12 July 1992 r. - Nanga Parbat (8125 m)
• 24 September 1993 r. - Cho Oyu (8201 m)
• 6 October 1993 r. - Shisha Pangma (8027 m)
• 26 September 1994 r. - Dhaulagiri (8167 m)
• 12 May 1995 r. - Mount Everest (8848 m)
• 14 July 1996 r. - K2 (8611 m) without oxygen
• 15 July 1997 r. - Gasherbrum I (8068 m)
• 21 July 1997 r. - Gasherbrum II (8035 m)
• 15 May 2000 r. - Lhotse (8501 m)
• 15 May 2001 r. - Kangchenjunga (8598 m)
• 16 May 2002 r. - Makalu (8481 m)
• 17 May2003 r. - Manaslu (8163 m)
• 22 July 2005 r. - Rocky Summit (8006 m) (so called Broad Peak Middle)
• 8 July 2006 r. - Broad Peak

    He has climbed the world's tallest peaks - only one has eluded him: Annapurna.
    Piotr Pustelnik is a researcher at the Faculty of Processing Engineering and Environment Protection, Technical University of Lodz. Currently, he wants to reach the 14 highest peaks of the Himalayas.