Extreme skiing down 8,000m peaks continues this spring, as veteran Bartek Ziemski plans to ski from the summit of Lhotse, the fourth-highest peak on Earth.
Ziemski, 37, of Poland, will climb 8,516m Lhotse with no supplementary oxygen or personal Sherpa support. However, until Camp 4, he will have to deal with the crowds heading up neighboring Everest. The two mountains share the same route until that point.
The skier is already in Everest Base Camp, after acclimatizing — and skiing — Mera Peak, Wspinanie.pl reported.
A long list of 8,000m descents
Ziemski has done similar feats on Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II in the summer of 2022. He followed up with Annapurna and Dhaulagiri in the spring of 2023, then Kangchenjunga and a partial descent of Makalu in spring 2024. Finally, he did Manaslu last year.
Unlike all of Ziemski’s Himalayan expeditions since 2023, Oswald Rodrigo Pereira will not join him this time to climb on foot and film Ziemski’s descent. Pereira has no Himalayan plans this year.
In 2018, Americans Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson became the first to ski Lhotse. The couple used supplementary oxygen. Nelson later perished while skiing down Manaslu in 2022. Morrison skied down the Hornbein Couloir on the North Face of Everest in 2025.
