Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich

Andrzej Heinrich (left), Kazimierz Olech and Andrzej Czok attempting to climb Mount Everest in 1980

Andrzej Heinrich with Pasang Norbu Sherpa on Mount Everest

Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich (21 July 1937 in Łbowo, central Poland – 27 May 1989) was a Polish mountaineer. He died in an avalanche on the northwest slopes of Mount Everest in 1989.

Achievements

Tatra Mts and Alps

A lot of serious climbs including hard new routes and first winter ascents. Among Polish climbers the team Heinrich-Chrobak (Eugeniusz Chrobak, other one of the Polish strongest Himalaya climbers ever) was held in high prestige (something like the team Bonington-Whillans in Britain).

Great Ranges

• 1971 - Kunyang Chhish (7852 m) - first ascent to the summit (along with Andrzej Zawada, Jan Stryczyński and Ryszard Szafirski).
• 1978 - Kanchenjunga Central (8482 m), first ascent - together with Wojciech Brański, Kazimierz Olech.
• 1979 - Lhotse (8516 m), October 4, ascent together with Andrzej Czok, Jerzy Kukuczka and Janusz Skorek.
• 1980 - Mount Everest, participation in the winter expedition, leading the way by the Ice Fall, participated in setting up higher camps.
• 1981 - Masherbrum, SW Peak (7821 m), first ascent, with Marek Malatyński and Przemysław Nowacki.
• 1985 - Cho Oyu (8,201 m), winter expedition, new route via SE Pillar, ascent with Jerzy Kukuczka (15 Feb, three days after the first winter ascent by the team of the same expedition, Maciej Berbeka and Maciej Pawlikowski).
• 1985 - Nanga Parbat (8126 m), first ascent of the NE buttress, on summit together with Jerzy Kukuczka, Carlos Carsolio and Sławomir Łobodziński.

Sources

• Józef Nyka: Masherbrum Southwest, Ascent and Tragedy. American Alpine Journal, 1982, pp. 271–272
• Andrzej Zawada: Cho Oyu's Three-Kilometer-High Face. American Alpine Journal, 1986, pp. 6–13 (with 2 photographs with lines depicted)
• AAJ 1986, p. 290 (note on Nanga Parbat)

External links

• AAJ, Searchable online access
• Strona poświęcona pamięci himalaisty Andrzeja Heinricha (in Polish)
• portrait on www.nyka.home.pl (in Polish)