Maciej Berbeka

Maciej Berbeka (1954 to 2013) was a Polish mountaineer and mountain guide who made the first winter ascents of three eight-thousanders: Manaslu on 12 January 1984 with Ryszard Gajewski, Cho Oyu on 12 February 1985 with Maciej Pawlikowski, the only winter ascent of an eight-thousander made along a new route, and Broad Peak on 5 March 2013 with Adam Bielecki, Artur Małek and Tomasz Kowalski. He and Kowalski went missing on 6 March 2013 while descending from Broad Peak and were declared dead two days later. He had also summited Annapurna in 1982, Mount Everest and Lhotse, and on 6 March 1988 he was the first person to reach over 8,000 metres in winter in the Karakoram, on the Rocky Summit of Broad Peak. His life is the subject of the 2022 Polish Netflix film Broad Peak.