Broad Peak

Poland scores first winter conquest of Broad Peak

Two expedition members missing and presumed dead

By Robert Strybel, Our Warsaw Correspondent

WARSAW–Members of a four-man Polish mountain-climbing expedition were full of enthusiasm at the prospect of doing what had never been done before – climbing 8,047-meter (26,401-foot) Broad Peak in the Himalayas on the Sino-Pakistani border in winter.

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