Andrzej Zawada

Andrzej Zawada (1928 to 2000) was a Polish mountaineer, expedition leader and pioneer of winter Himalayism, who also worked as a geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1955 to 1993. He led the 1971 Polish expedition that made the first ascent of Khunyang Chhish in the Karakoram, and with Tadeusz Piotrowski made the first winter ascent of Noshaq in the Hindu Kush on 13 February 1973, the first winter climb above 7,000 metres. On 25 December 1974 he and Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich became the first people to exceed 8,000 metres in winter, reaching 8,250 metres on Lhotse. He led the February 1980 expedition on which Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy made the first winter ascent of Mount Everest, and he was an honorary member of the British Alpine Club.