Last week, the media spread shocking information about the death of Kacper Tekieli. The husband of Justina Kowalczyk-Tequiela died tragically in the Alps. The Pole wanted to conquer all 82 four-thousanders. Krzysztof Wielicki spoke about the tragedy.
A few hours before the tragedy, Kacper Tekieli posted a post on social networks. In Instagram there was a photo of a backpack prepared for the next mountain hike. Together with the Tekiela family, he stayed in the Swiss Alps.
Krzysztof Wielicki on the tragic death of Kacper Tekeli
Ryszard Opyatowski from Fakt spoke with one of the greatest legends of Polish Himalayan mountaineering. Krzysztof Wielicki, because we are talking about him, spoke about a possible scenario for the tragedy that occurred in the Swiss Alps.
“Unfortunately, Katzper was probably wrong, he crossed the slope on skis. Sometimes there are spots on the slope. The layer of snow is accumulating and he may have driven into it. Maybe he just clipped the board with his skis. I don’t know what would have happened if he didn’t have skis. Maybe he wouldn’t cut it. This is an assumption. He was unlucky, because the snowboard, most likely, went into the couloir and could stop on the leveling, “Velitsky admitted.
The fifth man on earth, who conquered the Crown of the Himalayas and the Karakoram, also noticed that the husband of our outstanding athlete did not take the so-called. avalanche backpack.
“When you pull the handle, the compressed air creates a balloon above your head, which pulls it up and creates space around your head. There were studies that showed that in 90 percent of cases such a balloon saved lives. Such a balloon in an avalanche raises a person above it or frees up space. And in an avalanche, the snow blinds you so much that you can’t move anything, as if you were walled up. He could have taken this backpack…,” Wielicki added.
Justina Kowalczyk-Tekiela’s husband was an experienced climber.
Tekieli was a sport climber. He had, among others, a title given by the Polish Mountaineering Association. In August 2020, Tekeeli, together with Maciej Cheselsky and Piotr Sulovsky, made the first winter ascent of Expander. In addition, he had all the peaks of the so-called. Great Crown of the Tatras.
The husband of Justina Kowalczyk-Tekiela was 38 years old. In September 2020, he married Justina Kowalczyk, an outstanding athlete, Olympic champion. A year later, their son Hugo Tekieli was born.
Source: Wprost
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