Ueli Steck, “The Swiss Machine” who passed away in an accident in the Himalaya Sunday, changed what is possible in the sport of mountaineering. The world lost one of the greatest mountaineers in the ...

Ueli Steck was alone yesterday on Nuptse, that enormous and difficult mountain opposite Everest. He was on his own because after his climbing partner Tenji Sherpa suffered frostbite, Ueli had decided ...

Mountaineer Conrad Anker writes about the death of the sport’s fastest, most misunderstood climber — the likes of which we may never see again. On April 30, climbing lost one of its greats, Ueli Steck ...

Following the news that Ueli Steck, one of the world’s most formidable alpinists, lost his life on Sunday while climbing in Nepal, the entire mountaineering community was in mourning. While a number ...

On 16/11/2015 Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck climbed the Heckmair route up the North Face of the Eiger in 2 hours and 22 minutes, beating the previous record set in 2011 by Dani Arnold by 6 minutes Ueli, ...

On April 30, while climbing on Nuptse, near Everest, alpinist and speed mountaineer Ueli Steck fell to his death. In the hours following, notes and remembrances from the climbers and athletes who knew ...

UELI STECK took a deep breath and stared up at the north face of the Eiger, the infamous 5,900-foot wall of fractured limestone and ice, high in the Bernese Alps, that has killed at least 64 people ...

The video featuring Ueli Steck and his ascent on 16/11/2015 of the North Face of the Eiger in a record breaking time of 2 hours and 22 minutes. After the news, published only yesterday, of the ...

A year has already passed since that 30 April 2017. At the time we didn’t want to believe it, nobody wanted to believe it. And yet Ueli Steck really had gone away forever. It happened on Nuptse, the ...

Interview with Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck after climbing the 82 alpine four-thousanders, carried out in 62 days last summer from 11/06/2015 to 11/08/2015. The enchainment had previously been carried ...