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Ludwik Chałubiński
Ludwik Chałubiński (2 August 1860, in Warsaw – 17 April 1933, in Zakopane) was a Polish alpinist and chemical engineer. Son of Tytus Chałubiński, Ludwik started climbing the Tatras at the age of 14, initially with his father and then with his friends. In 1877 together with guides Wojciech Roj and Maciej Sieczka, he made the first ascent of the Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki. He was also the first to reach the summit of Młynarz (1885), the second to reach Baranie Rogi (1884), and the third on top of the Durny Szczyt (1881). He also climbed the Alps, where he was the first Pole to climb the Großglockner and Aletschhorn. His daughter was Aniela Chałubińska Aniela Chałubińska (1 October 1902 – 6 July 1998) was a Polish geographer, geologist and university professor. She was one of the founders and the first director of the Institute of Regional Geography and remained there for 18 years at the Mar ... was a Polish geographer, geologist and university professor. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakopane
Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship. its population was 27,266. Zakopane is a centre of Gorals, Goral culture and is often referred to as "the winter capital of Poland". It is a popular destination for mountaineering, skiing, and tourism. Zakopane lies near Poland's border with Slovakia, in a valley between the Tatra Mountains and Gubałówka Hill. It is connected by rail and road to the provincial capital, Kraków. Zakopane lies above mean sea level, above sea level and centres on the intersection of its Krupówki and Kościuszko Streets. History The earliest documents mentioning Zakopane date to the 17th century, describing a Glade (geography), glade called ''Zakopisko''. In 1676, it was a village of 43 inhabitants. In 1818, Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpinist
Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpine environment. While alpine climbing began in the European Alps, it is used to refer to climbing in any remote mountainous area, including in the Himalayas and Patagonia. The derived term alpine style refers to the fashion of alpine climbing to be in small lightly equipped teams who carry their equipment (e.g. no porters), and do all of the climbing (e.g. no sherpas or reserve teams). Alpinists face a wide range of serious risks in addition to the specific risks of rock, ice, and mixed climbing. This includes the risks of rockfalls (common with rock faces in alpine environments), avalanches (especially in couloirs), seracs and crevasses, violent storms hitting climbers on exposed mountain faces, altitude effects (dehydration, edema, fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tytus Chałubiński
Tytus Aureliusz Chałubiński (29 December 1820, Radom – 4 November 1889, Zakopane) was a Polish physician, naturalist, and co-founder of the Polish Tatra Society. His collections of natural history specimens are now held in the Tatra Mountains Museum in Zakopane. Life and work Chałubiński was born in Radom (some biographers give it as Bialograj where his grandfather lived), son of judge Szymon. His mother Theodosia came from the Wnorowski family of nobles. He studied medicine at Vilnius from 1838, the medical school there had been founded by Jedrzej Sniadecki (1768-1838) and his writings on physiological chemistry would have been an influence. The school was closed in 1840 and in the same year his mother lost all her wealth and she committed suicide. He moved to Dorpat wrote his thesis on sexual reproduction in plants and completed his medical studies at the University of Würzburg. He returned to Warsaw and practiced at the clinic of the Evangelic Hospital under Ferdyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki
Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki or the Mięguszowiecki Grand Peak () is a mountain in the Tatra Mountains, located on the border between Poland and Slovakia. It is the highest of the three Mięguszowiecki Summits and the second-highest mountain in Poland after Rysy (2,503 metres, the highest peak in the Polish Tatras). References Gallery File:Cubryna a3.jpg, Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki (left), view from Zawory File:Filar miegusza.jpg, North-eastern slope "Filar Mięgusza" leading to Morskie Oko Morskie Oko, or Eye of the Sea in English, is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains, in southern Poland. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park in the Rybi Potok (the Fish Brook) Valley, of the High Tatras mount ... File:Mięguszowieckie Szczyty a1.jpg, Mięguszowieckie Summits Two-thousanders of Poland Two-thousanders of Slovakia Mountains of the Western Carpathians {{Slovakia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großglockner
The Großglockner ( ), or just Glockner, is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, situated along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine divide. The Pasterze, Austria's most extended glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope. The characteristic pyramid-shaped peak actually consists of two pinnacles, the ''Großglockner'' and the Kleinglockner (, from German: ''groß'' 'big', ''klein'' 'small'), separated by the ''Glocknerscharte'' col. Etymology The name ''Glocknerer'' is first documented in a 1561 map designed by the Viennese cartographer Wolfgang Lazius. The denotation ''Glogger'' is mentioned in a 1583 description of the Tyrolean Kals legal district, then referring to the whole ridge south of the Alpine main chain. In the 1760s, the ''Atlas Tyrolensis'' listed a ''Glockner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aletschhorn
The Aletschhorn () is a mountain in the Alps in Switzerland, lying within the Jungfrau-Aletsch region, which has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The mountain shares part of its name with the Aletsch Glacier lying at its foot. The Aletschhorn, the second highest mountain of the Bernese Alps after the Finsteraarhorn, is the only one of the higher peaks that lies completely in Valais. It is the culminating point of a chain running parallel with the dividing ridge, and surpassing it in the height of its principal peaks. Standing thus between the principal range of the Bernese Alps and the Pennine chain, it shares with the Bietschhorn the advantage of occupying a central position in relation to the high peaks around it. The Aletschhorn is often thought to command the finest of all the panoramic views from Alpine summits. John Ball, ''The Alpine Guide: Central Alps'', 1869, p. 94 Geography On its northern flank lies the Aletschfirn, which is part of the Aletsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniela Chałubińska
Aniela Chałubińska (1 October 1902 – 6 July 1998) was a Polish geographer, geologist and university professor. She was one of the founders and the first director of the Institute of Regional Geography and remained there for 18 years at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Biography Chałubińska was born 1 October 1902 in Lviv (then part of Austria-Hungary) as the first child of chemical engineer and alpinist Ludwik Chałubiński and his wife Antonina Kamiński. She spent her childhood in Zakopane in a house built by her grandfather, the prominent doctor Tytus Chałubiński. From 1909 to 1921, she attended schools in Zakopane and Kraków, Poland, and went to the private women's grammar school of the Ursuline Sisters in Kraków. She graduated in geography from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv where her mentor was Eugeniusz Romer. In Lviv, she was influenced by Henryk Arctowski, Kazimierz Twardowski and Jan Czekanowski. Her two papers from 1924 il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 Births
Events January * January 2 – The astronomer Urbain Le Verrier announces the discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan (hypothetical planet), Vulcan at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapses, killing at least 77 workers. * January 13 – Battle of Tétouan, Morocco: Spanish troops under General Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan defeat the Moroccan Army. * January 20 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour is recalled as Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia. February * February 20 – Canadian Royal Mail steamer (1859) is wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, on passage from the British Isles to the United States with all 205 onboard lost. * February 26 – The 1860 Wiyot Massacre, Wiyot Massacre takes place at Tuluwat Island, Humboldt Bay in northern California. * February 26, February 27 – Abraham Lincoln makes his Cooper Union speech, Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
