Name Jan Mela | Role Explorer | |
Siblings Peter Mela, Dorota Mela, Agata Mela Similar People Marek Kaminski, Magdalena Soszynska‑Michno, Maciej Musial, Michal Koterski, Marcelina Zawadzka | ||
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Jan Mela (born December 30, 1988 in Gdańsk) is a Polish explorer who, as a teenage double amputee, was the youngest person to reach the North Pole in 2004, and eight months later the South Pole. He created the Foundation "Poza horyzonty" ("Beyond the horizons").
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- Festival paradise in the city temps fort avec jan mela explorateur polonais
- Warto ufac o stawaniu w prawdzie przed soba samym jan mela tedxpiotrkowskastreet
- Loss of limbs
- Polar expeditions
- References
Warto ufac o stawaniu w prawdzie przed soba samym jan mela tedxpiotrkowskastreet
Loss of limbs
The story began in 2002, when Jan, who comes from Malbork in Poland, was 13 years old. He was playing table tennis with some school friends when it suddenly started raining heavily. He sheltered from rain in an electrical transformer building in Malbork, where he received a 15,000 volt electric shock. The burns and tissue damage sustained meant surgeons had to amputate his left crus and right forearm.
Polar expeditions
As a member of a four-man expedition led by veteran Polish polar explorer Marek Kamiński called "Together to the Pole", Mela reached the North Pole on April 24, 2004 at the age of 15. After nine days of polar acclimatisation in Spitsbergen, Norway, the team began their 70 km trek on April 4, and received no outside assistance, relying solely on the supplies and gear they could pull on sleds.
Eight months later, Mela and Kamiński reached the South Pole in Antarctica on December 31, 2004 – a day after Mela's 16th birthday. On Christmas they ate typical Polish dishes like beetroot soup and they made a Christmas tree from snow.
