UELI STECK took a deep ... the classic, ambling line set in 1938 during the first ascent of the north face, by a German-Austrian team. Steck had never felt so dialed as he did on that February ...

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Ueli Steck, the Swiss climber commonly regarded as one of ... Climbing Everest is about the challenge of thin air. If you use [supplemental] oxygen you are just avoiding this ...

About nine years before he died, the Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck had already ... Crossing that line was unthinkable. “I don’t have a death wish,” Steck wrote in 2010.

Thus it was with the great climber Ueli Steck ... Kangshung Face? Steck: No, no Kangshung Face [laughs]. I’ve looked at that face so many times and haven’t found a good line.

A ‘legendary’ climber famous for incredibly fast ascents has died near Everest. Ueli Steck, 40, wanted to become the first person to climb both Everest and Lhotse in one go, and is believed to ...

In October 2013, alpinist Ueli Steck was alone at about ... fell to his death two-thirds up the face. The line remained incomplete. Above Steck, the winds raged, but the forecast called for ...

Ueli Steck, AKA the Swiss Machine, has stunned the mountaineering community with his solo ascent of a new line on Annapurna's forbidding south wall. It was his third visit to the 8,000er ...

On April 27, roughly 100 Sherpas and a three-person European alpine team, including heavy hitters Ueli Steck, Simone Moro ... they had to pull the whole line and set a new route all over again.

I was fortunate enough to be taking the remarkable Ueli Steck on a 'tourist run' around ... for breath as we dart around the tourists that line The Mall. "'How can I challenge myself more?' ...

Ueli Steck, AKA the Swiss Machine, has stunned the mountaineering community with his solo ascent of a new line on Annapurna's forbidding south wall. It was his third visit to the 8,000er ...