Kurtyka, Wojciech, 1947-

found: Art of Freedom, 2017:book jacket (inside): Voytek Kurtyka remains one of great alpinists of all time. He was bron in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing ... After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the sporing of 2016) page 13 (... and so it happened that the infant Voytek, who arrived without ceremony in the small village of Skrzynka on July 15th, 1947, was not registered until September 20th of that year)

found: LAC internal file, June 1, 2020(access point: Kurtyka, Wojciech, 1947-; variant: Kurtyka, Voytek, 1947-; Polish mountain climber)