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Polish national Marek Kamiński is known mainly for having reached both the North and South Poles in the same year.

In 1996, he created a foundation to help young disabled people and enable them to visit the polar regions.

Polar explorer, author, photographer and entrepreneur, Marek Kamiński was born on 24th March 1964 in Gdansk.

He was brought up in Pomerania and, in 1982, graduated from Władysław Broniewski high school in Koszalin.

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After that, Marek studied philosophy and physics at Warsaw University. He is the joint-owner of a company called Invena SA and created the foundation that bears his name. Marek lives in Sopot with his wife Katarzyna and daughter Pola.

Main achievements

• 1990: First polar expedition to Spitzberg, a trip of approximately 350 kilometres on skis.
• 1993: 'Trans Greenland Expedition', accompanied by Wojciech Moskal, is the first Polish crossing of the island (ap