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Amalia Kapłoniak (born 10 January 1956 in Wadowice is a Polish mountaineer and was the first Polish national and the 21st woman in the world to receive the Snow Leopard Award in the version with 4x7000ers Ismoil Somoni Peak/Peak Communism 7,495m; Khan Tengri 7,010 m; Lenin Peak 7,134m and Peak Korzhenevskaya, 7,105m) in 1989. Following editions of the challenge would include the Jengish Chokusu (Pobeda Peak). However, at that time, due to border issues between the Soviet Union and China, there were constraints with getting permission to climb the Pobeda Peak. In 1990, Amalia Kapłoniak joined an expedition to climb the Northern Face of the Kangchenjunga कञ्चनजङ्घा], the third highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 8,586 m. The expedition team led by Anna Czerwińska included Spanish climbers Koldo Aldaz, Juan Tomás, Juan Cebriain, Pedro Larregui and Iñaki Ochoa de Olza and three other Poles (two of them women): Krystyna Palmowska, Jolanta Patynowska and Dr. Ryszard Długołęcki. In his autobiographical work “Bajo Los Cielos de Asia” (Under the Skies of Asia), Navarre Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, who was only 22 years old at the time of the Kanchenjunga expedition, described Kapłoniak as a talented alpinist, and highlighted her well-disposed attitude and willingness to advance with the equipment through challenging routes while displaying great humour.

Amalia Kaploniak and Inaki Ochoa de Olza in Nepal,1990.

Amalia Kaploniak at the Kanchenjunga base camp in 1990.