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"To be a woman in Himalayas" movie screening and meeting with the directior Eliza Kubarska

event
09.24
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2022
schedule
12:00 p.m
place
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Culture Center
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«To be a woman in Himalayas» Women climbers from two different parts of the globe challenge the traditional order of the male orientated climbing world and influence the younger generation of alpinists in Poland and Nepal. In 1992, Wanda Rutkiewicz, a Polish climber, after her conquest of the K2 mountain as the first woman in history, set to climb the next eight-thousand-meter peak – Kanchenjunga. She never returned from that expedition. At the same time in Nepal, another woman climber Pasang Lhamu Sherpa set up on the expedition to Everest, the mountain she climbed as the first Nepali woman in history. This was her third assent but just like Wanda, she did not return home . 25 years Wanda and Pasang's successors appeared on the world arena: Kinga Baranowska and Maya Sherpa. Inspired by the courageous heroines of the last century, they continue the tradition of female himalaism raising the bar for others. The film features Anna Okopińska, a Polish climber, the first woman on an 8000 peak (Gasherbrum II), and a unique interview with Elizabeth Hawley, a month before her death. Elizabeth was a chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions and creator of the Himalayan Database, the unofficial record for climbs in the Nepalese Himalaya.

"To be a woman in Himalayas" movie screening and meeting with the directior Eliza Kubarska
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Eliza Kubarska - Film director and accomplished climber. Her multi-awarded documentaries focus on human stories and mountain adventure. Her last film "The Wall of Shadows" won 30 main awards around the world. As one of few women she is an author of new free climbs on bigger walls in the mountains. Currently in a team with a producer Monika Braid she is working on feature length documentary about Wana Rutkiewicz.