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Polish explorer Marek Kamiński ends pilgrimage trail

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Roberto Galea 14.07.2015 09:24
Marek Kamiński has completed St. James’s Way, the route to the shrine of the Apostle St. James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain.
Marek Kamiński walked 118 days to get to this sign in Santiago. Photo: Facebook.com/3 BiegunMarek Kamiński walked 118 days to get to this sign in Santiago. Photo: Facebook.com/3 Biegun

Kamiński made history twenty years ago by reaching both poles in one year without external assistance.

He has covered almost 4,000 kilometres through six countries in 118 days.

“It was the path from reason – the tomb of the philosopher Immanuel Kant in Kaliningrad, to faith. An incredible challenge, something which is totally absurd from the point of reason, an experience which taught me how to think with my heart,” Kamiński said in Santiago de Compostela.

The Polish Ambassador in Spain Tomasz Arabski invited Marek Kamiński for a tour of the town, which included the university campus, where Kamiński gave a lecture. ‘

“We’ve been friends with Marek for many years. For the embassy, his pilgrimage is a great joy and a good way to promote Poland,” Arabski said.

For the final, 100 kilometre-long stretch of the pilgrimage, Kamiński was joined by the 26 year-old disabled explorer Jan Mela, who accompanied Kamiński on his polar expeditions in 2004.

From Santiago de Compostela, Kamiński continues his pilgrimage to Fisterra, a remote peninsula which is known as Spain’s Land’s End, the country’s westernmost point, and from there to the Marian Sanctuary in Muxia.

Born in 1964, Kaminski studied philosophy and physics. In May 1995 he reached the North Pole in the company of Wojciech Moskal. In December of the same year he singlehandedly conquered the South Pole. He participated in several expeditions in the Antarctic and Greenland and twice crossed the Atlantic in a yacht.

In 2004, he once again reached both poles, this time in the company of the disabled teenager Jan Mela. (mk/rg)

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