1930s Polish Andean expeditions

Both expeditions have been credited with gathering scientific data and have led to a number of literary works being produced (such as autobiographical memoirs).

[2][5][7] The expedition was also of scientific importance, in terms of geographical and geological exploration (including fields of tectonics and stratigraphy, paleontology and petrography), as well as meteorological observations.

[2] The Second Polish Andean Expedition of 1936–1937, led by journalist and writer Justyn Wojsznis [pl], took place in the Ojos del Salado region, on the Northern section of the border between Argentina and Chile.

[10] The successes of Poles were extensively described in the Argentine and Chilean press; a number of meetings were organized, including in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo and Santiago.

These publications took place both in specialist circles, e.g. in Polish mountaineering magazines such as Wierchy [pl] and Taternik [pl] (as well as in foreign languages, including English-language The Geographical Journal[12]), and in forms more widely accessible to the public - such as through several autobiographical memoirs or narratives of expeditions, published by various Polish publishing houses (starting with books by Narkiewicz-Jodka, W walce o szczyty Andów, 1935; and Ostrowski's Na szczytach Kordyljerów.