People of the Mountains | Monika Witkowska | My K2 — mountain and sailing

My K2 — mountain and sailing” * Climbing K2, the second highest mountain in the world, is a much more difficult challenge than climbing Mount Everest. Monika Witkowska is the second Polish woman on this summit (the first was Wanda Rutkiewicz, she did it 36 years earlier). * During the lecture we will find out what the expedition looks like, not only from a mountain angle, but also literally and figuratively from the kitchen. * In the second part of the story we will move to the Arctic seas and check what can be expected on the “sailing K2”, which is the legendary North-West Passage, a sailing route between Greenland and Alaska through the ice. * Monika Witkowska — traveler, passionate about backpacking, with a tent, often solo, who visited 180 countries on all continents, a lover of mountains (conqueror of the Crown of the Earth, 4 eight-thousanders, including Mt. Everest and K2, as well as the highest volcanoes of the Planet), as well as ocean sailing. The only person in the world with Mt. Everest and K2 are the highest mountains in the world and their sailing counterparts (Cape Horn and North-West Passage). Author of books and journalist. He writes books about his travels (some can be purchased during the meeting), guides and articles for many well-known titles (including Sails, Gazeta Wyborcza, National Geographic Traveler, Know the World, Continents, Magazyn Góry, Viva, Twój Styl, Wysokie Heels and many others). For her literary work she was awarded, among others, the Leonid Teliga Prize (prize for sailing books) and several times the Magellan Prize (for travel books). He also talks about his adventures colorfully during lectures and motivational lectures. As a pilot and guide, he leads trips around the world, including trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorum and Kilimanjaro.