Shisha Pangma not conquered

Kinga Baranowska did not manage to conquer her seventh eight thousand meter peak Shisha Pangma (8027 meters high). The weather was very bad lately due to intensive snowfall.

Hotel owners buy Poles for 5 dollars

White socks with sandals and excessive drinking are no longer associated with Polish tourists. Hotel owners prefere Poles over other Western European countries' citizens. For this reason they pay up to 5 dollars for every Pole they get from travel companies.

Global day of tourism

On 27th September (Sunday) a global day of tourism will be celebrated. This year's 30th edition has a motto: "Celebrating diversity".

Kinga Baranowska wants to climb on the eight-thousander

34 years old Kinga Baranowska is going to climb on Shisha Pangma (8027 metres over sea level) in Tibet. If everything goes according to her plan, it will be seventh eight-thousander for young female Pole. The mountain climber left Warsaw yesterday.

Poles did not managed to climb Pik Pobiedy

Three Polish mountain climbers Aleksandra Dzik, Aleksandra Ihnatowicz i Joanna Stasielak planned to be first women, who alone managed to climb the highest peak of Tien Mountains - the Pik Pobiedy (7439 m). Unfortunately they did not manage to achieve their goal.