From 7 to 11 January 2006 Ueli Steck ... out on the wall, Steck recounts that the greatest difficulty was the slow speed of the actual climbing, seeing that due to the extreme nature of the route he ...

Others who have got superbly close in the past on Freerider include Nicolas Favresse and Siebe Vanhee, while Tommy Caldwell and Ueli Steck on Golden Gate and Seb ... After climbing Magic Line we both ...

In 2014, Swiss super-alpinist Ueli Steck flew into Scotland for an under-the-radar mixed ... We also went up Central Buttress on Bein Eighe (VI) but went up a hardish line direct through the top. I’ve ...

and more than a decade before that ominously totalitarian moment when Ueli Steck (one of the great alpinists of the 21st century, RIP) was literally assaulted for daring to play around on the ...

Dickey, Blood from the Stone (Sean Easton, Ueli Steck 2002) and a direct start to Ruth Gorge Grinder ... the pair spent the next four days forging a weaving, independent line up the huge south face.

(Photos: Courtesy David Breashears; Courtesy Todd Burleson) There were also obvious tensions, exemplified in 2013 by a confrontation that involved climbers Simone Moro, Ueli Steck, and a number of ...

The void below them was 10,000 feet of thin black air. Above them ... The section foiled previous attempts, including one by Ueli Steck and three others nearly two decades ago.