This was the fourth journey in Pawel’s Seven Summits – I See It Differently project, in which the young Pole is attempting to climb the highest mountains on the seven continents. Expeditions to Argentina’s Aconcagua (2007), Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro (2008) and Russia’s Elbrus (2008) have all been previously attempted.

Accompanying the young traveller on his trek to Kosciuszko were guide Czeslaw Kuba Jakubczyk and filmmaker Wojciech Ostrowski, also from Poland.

Urbanski lost his eyesight in 1995. He was the third blind person in the world and the first blind Pole to receive a full scholarship to the United World College in Norway. A graduate of Poland’s University of Gdansk, he now works as a computer scientist in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration.

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