About Andrzej Zawada
Andrzej Zawada (born Maria Andrzej Zawada; 16 July 1928 – 21 August 2000) was a Polish mountaineer, expedition leader and pioneer of winter Himalayism. Zawada was an organiser and leader of numerous high-mountains expeditions, author of movies and photographs from expeditions, and co-author of Alpinist books. He was an honorary member of the British Alpine Club, French Groupe de Haute Montagne and The Explorers Club in the United States. He was a grandson of Tomasz Rawicz-Zawada, a young participant of the January Uprising in 1863, and son of Filip Zawada, a Polish legionnaire and consul. == Geophysics == Zawada studied physics and geophysics in Wrocław and Warsaw where he received a degree in seismology. From 1955–1993 he worked at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1956 the geophysicist Roman Teisseyre asked Zawada to join him on a Polish scientific expedition to Vietnam, as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). The team also included Krzysztof Haman, Zawada acted as the expedition's film-maker. That led to an invitation to join the Polish Research Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1957-1958 which was based at the newly established Polish Polar Station, Hornsund. == Selected expeditions == In 1959, he was part of the expedition team with Kazimierz Olech who made the first successful winter crossing of the main ridge of Tatra Mountains, which took 19 days.
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