Ueli Steck killed in Mt Everest accident

[Ski. Fish. Bike.]

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...rest-accident/

[wyeaster]

fuck

[Vt-Freeheel]

This sucks, RIP.

[dark_star]

Horrible news.

[Skidog]

Yeah saw this a bit ago. Crazy.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

vaya con Dios Ueli ......

[My Pet Powder Goat]

Bummer, not surprised, but bummer

RIP to the human mountain goat

[Game Over]

☹️

[yeahman]

The best in the world. Sad. RIP

[Meadow Skipper]

When I first saw this some years back, my mind was forever blown. When he started sprinting along the summit ridge around 3:22...


RIP

[wyeaster]

me, too. first thing i thought of.

[pfluffenmeister]

When I first saw this some years back, my mind was forever blown. When he started sprinting along the summit ridge around 3:22...


RIP

^^^ same.

sprinting in crampons, no less.

... and the pan-in from afar focusing in on Ueli showing the true scale of the face.

RIP

[farmguy]

I remember watching this at the Banff Film festival when it came out, people were standing and cheering as he sprinted along that ridge.

[TBS]

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/...rest-accident/

"The team has collected the scattered parts of the climbers body"

I really hope this is a translation problem...

[Game Over]

I remember that vid. Thanks for posting.

[skaredshtles]

When I first saw this some years back, my mind was forever blown. When he started sprinting along the summit ridge around 3:22...


RIP

That's the 1st thing I'd ever seen him do. It was absolutely astounding if you're familiar with the Nordwand history.

[Meadow Skipper]

That's the 1st thing I'd ever seen him do. It was absolutely astounding if you're familiar with the Nordwand history.

I read The White Spider (highly recommended) some years ago, which gave that video some astounding perspective, like you said.

[skaredshtles]

I read The White Spider (highly recommended) some years ago, which gave that video some astounding perspective, like you said.

Yup. That's the best piece, IMO.

It seems like every mountaineering book has at least a chapter or two on the Nordwand... such history on that face.

[Norseman]

Damn. Elite human

[Tap]

I have never heard of this guy. Never seen that video.

It's is truly astounding, and it sounds like there is a long history to it all, but after watching that I'm left on a knife ridge between sick-to-my-stomach and fatalistic realism.

Ugh.

[m-ruta]

I remember watching this at the Banff Film festival when it came out, people were standing and cheering as he sprinted along that ridge.

I was at that showing, or at least a showing. My mind was absolutely blown, as I think was everybody's.

Ueli's achievements and approach never failed to inspire me. I was lucky enough to run into him in Chamonix while he was preparing for this Everest trip. Very kind, very humble. Fuck.

[redacted user]

Bummer, not surprised, but bummer

RIP to the human mountain goat

+1. Maybe the next, best mountaineer can solo Everest & die before 20?

[garyfromterrace]

Fuck. I thought he was super-human, immortal. I was wrong...
fuck.

[Hacksaw]

There is no margin for error in solo high altitude mountaineering. RIP, Ueli.

[ex-powderbroker]

Any actual details yet?