Located on the Pakistani-Chinese border, Broad Peak is the world’s 12th-highest mountain at 8,051 metres above sea level.
One of the climbers, Russian-born Denis Urubko, reached the summit 14 hours after leaving base camp.
It took him 20 hours and 20 minutes to go up and return to base camp, a new national record. The previous record, by Krzysztof Wielicki, was 22 hours and 10 minutes, and was achieved in 1984.
Another Pole, Rafal Fronia, also climbed Broad Peak from base camp in a solo push without supplementary oxygen.
Both Urubko and Fronia were members of a national winter expedition that failed to scale the K2 summit in northern Pakistan in 2018.
In recent days, Broad Peak was also conquered by Poland’s five-strong Beskid Expedition Team, as well as by Dorota Rasińska-Samoćko, who a year ago embarked on an ambitious plan to scale all the "eight-thousanders" in the Himalayas.
Thanks to stable weather conditions, a total of 16 climbers set their feet on Broad Peak this week.
(mk/gs)