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Wanda Rutkiewicz

1943 - 1992

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Wanda Rutkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wanda Rutkiewicz is the 9th most popular mountaineer (up from 15th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Wanda Rutkiewicz ranks 9 out of 56. Before her are Reinhold Messner, Heinrich Harrer, Andrew Irvine, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, and George Mallory. After her are Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, and Maurice Herzog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Wanda Rutkiewicz ranks 92. Before her are Richard Smalley, Barbara Bouchet, Chantal Mouffe, Oskar Lafontaine, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Mohammed Badie. After her are Rodney Alcala, Piet Keizer, Roy Andersson, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Ken Thompson, and Colin Baker. Among people deceased in 1992, Wanda Rutkiewicz ranks 42. Before her are Takeshi Inoue, César Manrique, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Denny Hulme, Mohamed Boudiaf, and Lella Lombardi. After her are Sidney Nolan, Markos Vafeiadis, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Sam Walton, John Ireland, and John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Wanda Rutkiewicz ranks 34 out of 328. Before her are Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Hacı I Giray (1397), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Gitanas Nausėda (1964), and Andrew Schally (1926). After her are Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Boris Skossyreff (1896), Treniota (1210), Andrius Kubilius (1956), Skirgaila (1354), and Moshe Arens (1925).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Lithuania

Among mountaineers born in Lithuania, Wanda Rutkiewicz ranks 1. 

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