Wanda Rutkiewicz meets Pope John Paul II. (Kraków, Poland, June 1979)Wanda Rutkiewicz is a legendary
Wanda Rutkiewicz meets Pope John Paul II. (Kraków, Poland, June 1979)Wanda Rutkiewicz is a legendary Polish mountain climber. She was the third woman in the World, the first European woman, and the first Pole, to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She made it on 16 October 1978. On the same day, in Rome, polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was chosen to became Pope and took name John Paul II. When they met following year, during his first papal trip to Poland, he remarked about this amazing coincidence: “Good Lord willed it Himself, that on the same day we both reached so high”.In the photo above, Mrs Rutkiewicz hands the Pope a gift - rock from the Mount Everest, framed in silver. Source: wiadomosci.wp.pl -- source link
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