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Ueli Steck Reports From Makalu Basecamp
On September 4, I reached 6700 meters on the West Pillar. Before I spent a comfortable night underneath the Jumeaux I at 6000 meters. My motivation was immense. I felt very good and I am convinced that I benefited a...
Paciencia: Opening A New Free Route on the Eiger
By Ueli Steck 2003 The summer was hot and the weather very stable. It's the summer of the century in Switzerland. Thanks to this long lasting and beautiful weather period of time, Stephan Siegrist and I spent nearly the whole...
New Route on the Eiger: Paciencia
By Ueli Steck New route in the Eiger Northface: "Paciencia" Length 27 pitches / 900m, difficulty 8a First ascent: Stephan Siegrist and Ueli Steck summer 2003 First freeclimb: Ueli Steck August 30, 2008 View More Photographs from Ueli and Stephan's...
Bittersweet: 2008 Himalaya Season Wrap-Up
By Cynthia Houng This spring, 3 Mountain Hardwear-sponsored teams headed to the Himalayas. Two teams chose to tackle Annapurna (Ueli Steck and Simon Anthmatten went for Annapurna's notoriously treacherous South Face, while Ben Clark and his crew were aiming for...
On Annapurna
View more photographs Original German text by Edi Estermann, first published in the "Schweizer Illustrierte", Issue No. 23, June 2, 2008. Translated by Patricia Bamert, with assistance from Cynthia Houng Big stories begin with small coincidences. A coincidence that...
Ueli Steck honored with Eiger Award
On Friday, May 30, 2008, Ueli received the 2008 Eiger Award. The award is part of Grindelwald's annual Eiger Live festival. The Award honors Ueli for his achievements as an alpinist and mountaineer. Read Jo Adams's report on Ueli's Eiger...
Annapurna: Coda
By Ueli Steck Ringgenberg, Monday, June 2, 2008 Simon and I are back in Switzerland and we will try in the next days and weeks to get some rest and we hope that we will work up the happenings of...
On the Way Home
On Monday, May 26, 2008, we received this dispatch from Ueli Steck's office in Switzerland: "Ueli and Simon started today their way back to Kathmandu. Both are tired and happy to go back home as soon as possible. After this...
Back at Base Camp
Annapurna base camp, Friday, May 16 2008 We are back at the base camp. Simon and I decided to go back. The avalanches came down already at 9 pm. The weather and the wall conditions made it impossible to climb...
Culinary Delights and Upcoming Plans
By Ueli Steck Tuesday, May 13, 2008 It's a good week since Simon and I arrived at the Annapurna base camp. On Thursday, May 8, we went up to install the ABC at about 5100m. We left the necessary equipment...
On the way to Annapurna Base Camp
More photographs By Ueli Steck Pokhara, Thursday, May 1, 2008 With a beer Simon and I celebrated out first ascent of Tengkampoche Northface when we got back the same night of April 24, to Tengkampoche basecamp. For more, we...
Tengkangpoche Photos
Ueli Steck and Simon Anthamatten summitted the North Face of Tengkangpoche. Here are some photographs from their climb: Click here to view the photo set. View the route....
First Ascent of the North Face of Tengkampoche
We are pleased to share Ueli's latest news with you--Ueli and Simon have just completed a successful first ascent of the Tengkampoche North Face, a 6500 meter peak in Nepal's Khumbu Valley. By Ueli Steck Thengpo base camp - Friday,...
Meeting Interesting People
By Ueli Steck Thengpo Base Camp, April 20, 2008: During our treks it happens that we do meet some very interesting personalities. So we did on Sunday, April 6, when we walked back from the Trashi Laptsa Pass back to...
On the North Face of Tengkampoche
By Ueli Steck Namche Bazar - Monday, April 14, 2008 Simon and I needed a short break. That's why we decided to go back to Namche Bazar just for one day. Our first attempt to climb the north face ofTengkamopche...
Arriving in Thengpo
By Ueli Steck Thengpo basecamp - Tuesday, April 8, 2008: We left the village of Namche Bazar (3440m) on Monday, March 31st. Simon and I passed the village of Thame (3800m) and his famous monastery and reached Thengpo on the...
Sayonara, Canada: Ueli & Simon Pioneer Another Line
View More Images from Ueli on Flickr. By Ueli Steck November 9, 2007: The Canada trip comes to an end. We had a perfect finish yesterday. Howse Peak didn't work out, but that's the game. In the end the...
Not Flying is Not Trying: Ueli and Simon Create a New Route in the Canadian Rockies
View More Pictures from Ueli's Most Recent Climbs on Flickr. By Ueli Steck November 4, 2007: The weather here is still very unstable. But we got some really good climbing in. But not Howse, the time is running fast,...
Sea of Vapors: Another Day in the Canadian Rockies
View More Photos from the Sea of Vapors on Flickr. By Ueli Steck Yesterday we had again an early start to Howse Peak. 3.30 am... When we arrived at the parking lot, there was already 20 cm of fresh...
Rocket Baby: Ueli's New Route on Mt. Patterson
View More Pictures from Ueli's climb on Flickr. By Ueli Steck Friday was not that good. We went to try a route on Howse Peak. The weather was just not good. And there were too many avalanches in the...