
Michał Król
A climber, an international IVBV/UIAGM mountain guide. He has climbed in the Tatras, Alps and Himalayas, in summer and winter. He has done dry tooling routes up to M14.
Michał is most successful in ice and mixed climbing. In the Himalayas and Kyrgyzstan he opened new routes for which he was awarded by Ministry of Sport and during Kolosy in Gdynia -the biggest travel event in Europe.
He has been tied to the mountains since childhood. As a 13-year-old he began training on a low wall in Nowy Targ. Three years later he made his first free solo ascent of the route Finale VI. 4 (7b). A few years later he went to the Himalayas where, together with David Kaszlikowski, they climbed the virgin peak in the Miyar Valley. It was the first Polish expedition to that region of the Himalayas and the crew was preceded only by few other expeditions.
Michał has done many free solo climbs as well as difficult technical projects, often crowning them with opening new routes. He is a member of the Polish Mountaineering national team and has international IVBV/UIAGM guide license.
He is the author of Bafomet, the first in Poland dry tool M 14 route. It is the highest score in Poland and one of the few such routes in the world. He is a versatile climber and dry tooling enthusiast. Together with David Kaszlikowski they opened the route on the south-west wall of the virgin Lotus Peak (750 m, VIII-, M6). The exploration activity with Przemek Wójcik resulted in summiting the so far unclimbed peaks: Tama Donog via Skazani na Miyar (1000 m, VIII-) and Geruda Peak via a 900-metre route VII +, 1 x A0.
He has cooperated as an athlete and gear tester with the PETZL Polish team.