The Craziest Everest 2026 Record No One Talks About

In May 2026 Bartek Ziemski — a 31-year-old Polish ski mountaineer with no sponsors, no social media, and no support team — skied down both Lhotse and Everest without supplemental oxygen, just seven days apart. This is the story of the most overlooked record of the 2026 Everest season: how a software engineer living out of a van out-climbed the entire commercial Everest industry, and became the first person in history to ski both Everest and Lhotse in a single season. We cover his MAD Ski Project, his no-oxygen ski descents of 9 of the world's 14 highest mountains, the brutal 2026 season he climbed through, and how his self-supported descent compares to Andrzej Bargiel's sponsored 2025 record.