Ueli Steck: The Last Ascent

[@rubycelica]

i'm swiss and i remember that when the news of his death came around they stopped the regular tv programme for a tribute to him, it was a huge thing as many of us identified with him, somewhat like with roger federer, and i was genuinely sad. my sister knows his wife (same climbing club) it was sad all around:( if you understand swiss german, watch the srf dok documentary about him and his family, very well made!

[@borismuller86]

I found it with various subtitles (including English) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2HGgnpqppKha7c

[@HumptyDumpty-os7ie]

Yes…the Swiss are very special.. We should all lay rose pedals down when a Swiss walks by

[@Skaatje]

If you knock on heaven's door often enough, at some point they will open.

[@jamesgordon7608]

Climbing is kind of underrated. The number of sherpas that died or summited and nobody knows their names or cares to know. Ueli is the greatest at speed climbing the highest peaks in the world. Telling someone like him to not climb alone is like cutting someone's feet off and saying, "See but you wont ever fall again because you can't walk". He climbed is what he did and will for the rest of eternity. RIP.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Thats the true sad, no one cares about the sherpas

[@jessamineprice5803]

If you all get a chance, the video of Steck speed climbing the North Face is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. It might still be floating around on KZbin somewhere.

[@ClimbingEasy]

If you ever see someone running up the side of a cliff and thigh high snow more than likely that's Ueli Steck

[@tictactoehuhn6]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfTioGobMqmZrs

[@camerongrant9356]

I’ve seen that video many times. It’s astonishing how easy he made that look, the north face is no joke

[@ViaFerrataCH]

And his heart rate didn't get above 165!

[@thewatcher5248]

@@ClimbingEasy well if you see someone doing it after he died it definitely is not him.

[@audioostrich]

The guide who found ueli's body put it this way: If you have been to the Himalayas, you will often see Bharal, blue sheep, very high on the mountains. They are very agile and fast so as to protect themselves from snow leopards. But sometimes, blue sheep fall off from cliffs. Each time they do, there is a different reason. Sometimes they fall due to rock fall, other times, they have perhaps run too fast, etc. Perhaps we must think of Ueli as such - as a Bharal, as one of our blue sheep of the Himalayas who one day fell for an unexpected reason but was otherwise a master.

[@jean-francoisbrieuc705]

Vous avez raison (?) 40 ans pour un mouton, même bleu, c'est le grand âge. Pour un homme et plus encore pour sa femme c'est un peu... short, non ! Vu comme une épopée, bien vivant devant votre écran c'est "amazing" comme dit un autre commentaire !

[@robjones-qj2jj]

@audioostrich Master dumbazz

[@ImPacosTacos]

i say perfect comparison, just like a sheep no one really cares this dude died in such a stupid way :)

[@yesterdayitrained]

I love this quote. I believe it’s 100% true.

[@jean-francoisbrieuc705]

Courir sur la montagne c'est être "the best" ?! What a poor conception! J'ai beaucoup plus d'admiration pour la première femme, la 2ème plus exactement, Henriette d'Angeville montant en jupe au sommet du Mont Blanc en 1838 ! Une admiration sans bornes pour une véritable légende, Reinhold Messner, pour Walter Bonatti, Gaston Rebuffat, Louis Lachenal ou Lionel Terray, peut-être le plus doué de tous. De l'affection presque pour Patrick Berhaut, le pur, grand admirateur de Rudolf Noureev ou pour Eric Escoffier... Jean-Christophe Lafaille avait déjà ouvert la voie où il ne s'agissait plus d'alpinisme mais de performance !!! Il a disparu aussi dans le massif himalayen laissant sa femme et son petit garcon cultiver son souvenir !!! Et que dire de la lumineuse Chantal Mauduit, fabuleux être humain avant que d'être une alpiniste magnifique, engloutie par une avalanche dans sa tente une nuit avec son sherpa ! Et dont l'association qui porte son nom poursuit son œuvre auprès des enfants tibétains. Vive l'humilité dans la montagne !

[@luciad5988]

I remember the shock I felt she I heard of Ueli’s death. It was truly sad.

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Do you remember where you were when you found out(?)

[@Someone-yt8le]

@@houseofsolomon2440 I remember, I was sitting outside in my backyard with my mother and we were both pretty damn shocked and sad about it

[@annnee6818]

I was bothed shocked and not surprised somehow. Like I was with Amy Winehouse.

[@paddlefaster]

I stood at the bottom of the Eiger as well as looking out one of the gallery windows. The thought of climbing that in two and a half hours is mind-boggling. What a legend!

[@jasonracey9600]

Peak at 7:32 labeled "Nuptse" is actually Lhotse.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

I never get tired of stories of the greatest climbers

[@Lady.B0420]

Same, it would just be awesome if less of them died.

[@johnlabry325]

Same

[@karakoram4613]

Same here!

[@Mrbfgray]

Kept his promise to limit number of solo attempts. 😄

[@comptonoverland7442]

Climbing is a real sport where your life is at stake every trip !!

[@bobedwards7455]

Viewing tip: Increase playback speed to 1.25 Gamechanger!

[@jirihaban380]

Great video, but I have to correct you a little bit. Ueli would often say that he was not very talented climber, he just worked way harder than everyone else. To me that is the most inspiring thing about him.

[@jakewest2524]

Yes, very inspiring to be utterly selfish, stupid and fall to your death for absolutely nothing other than to be a narcissist

[@vincentkrause7097]

It starts with a bit of talent and than your desire and work mentality has to provide the Rest

[@comptonoverland7442]

There was bad energy in that area for him. You left out that Sherps tried to stone him to death in basecamp years before over a incident on the fixed lines. Look it up there are videos on KZbin. After that I would steer clear of that mountain.

[@jakewest2524]

And a good reason for it. Yet you clowns glorify him

[@vanessaruiz4705]

@@jakewest2524 were you there? because nobody really knows what happened, there are 2 versions and only who was there knows.

[@rocnoir4233]

@@jakewest2524 www.pioletsdor.net/presse/2017/forum/Annapurna-2013-Steck.pdf He was a charlatan for claiming ascents of Annapurna and Shishapangma.

[@Kahsimiah]

I was lucky enough to meet Ueli in 2016, on Cologne Alpine Day in Germany. He was such a nice guy and during his talk used the many Eiger climbs and records as a running gag. He even took his wife once, as a birthday surprise, because he had totally forgotten about her birthday. Woke her up in the morning and said "Everything ist ready! What do you say: you, me, Nordwand?" What a formidable human being.

[@vincentkrause7097]

I was there to,o extremly nice talk. He mentioned the drawbacks of beeing a fast alpinist (having to visit every Building in Dheli because they climbed the Shiviling to fast;)

[@poutinedream5066]

🤣 Id have killed him!

[@mxxx0404]

I climbed a north face in the Valais with a mountain guide that knew Ueli well and who had climbed with Ueli in Nepal. My mountain guide, a World Champion at Ice Climbing, revered Ueli and said that he was on a completely different level. Very sad.

[@griffith500tvr]

If you look for the edge you will eventually find it.

[@RDJ2]

If you fuck around, you will find out.

[@hightimecrime]

I have such a fascination with climbers.. You did a great job on this video!

[@crelgen1588]

The poor wife:( May he rest in peace.

[@brandonsavitski]

Some other guy is clapping her cheeks right now as we speak while she's still spending the money Steck made off of endorsements.

[@crelgen1588]

@@brandonsavitski What's the course of action a widow should take to avoid this sort of disparagement in your opinion? Reject the inheritance and stay alone forever?

[@christiankeil7845]

You should give all details about the Annapurna South Face climb including the lost camera and the forgotten watch etc.

[@nop58653]

How the hell did this guy do the Eigers North Face in 2 hours wasn't the old record something like 3 days & 7 people

[@TelPrank]

2~20h to be exact. Yes he did it. A drone was following him all the time recording. Yet there’s another swiss mountaineer who already beat Ueli‘s record. Yes yes, no joke

[@ONCEuponAtime999]

@@TelPrank not true..Uli Steck is the current holder...he beat Dani Arnold over margin of 5 minutes

[@douglasgray1648]

If you look at the history of El Capitan, you see a similar pattern. It was a multi-day slog, then it was finally done in a day, then half a day, then it was whittled down still further. Uli followed a similar pattern with his accident; you survive horrendously difficult places, then you fall at a place you don't expect.

[@aliensoup2420]

@@douglasgray1648 Similarly, Olympic gymnasts...they perform ground-breaking new skills, but fall doing ordinary things they have mastered for years.

[@CharlesFreck]

​@@douglasgray1648 To be fair, the difficulty of the peak he was ascending is always massively underreported in these videos. He was climbing a peak that was many times more difficult then Everest from a technical aspect, at a great height, and without support, guide ropes or even a trail to follow. He died on a rather difficult and dangerous climb, not an easy one.

[@sunnysideup1744]

Another excellent video. Your in-depth and well researched uploads are a breath of fresh air and very enjoyable when I'm relaxing with a good cuppa.

[@aliksanderj9729]

It’s five after midnight for me, I just got home from a long day at work and this was the first video on my homepage. Thank fuck for you ❤

[@jakewest2524]

Get a life..

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

Man... I felt this..

[@rickwild5695]

I had the pleasure of meeting Ulli at a movie premiere in Portland Oregon. The Swiss machine. I still remember shaking his hand and knowing what he had done. A formidable climber

[@Kahsimiah]

Let me tell you how BADASS 05:00 was: him and alternating colleagues rode their bikes from mountain to mountain, speed climbed up, made their proof picture and then they went down paragliding. OVER 80 TIMES!!

[@potatoesaregood5127]

If I was capable of doing such a thing, I imagine it’d be quite fun!

[@TeezoDouble]

Oh my god, I had to rewind that 3 times and put on cc to make sure I wasn't hearing things. Absolutely other worldly incredible!

[@Kahsimiah]

@@potatoesaregood5127 he spoke about it like it was a ton of fun. :-) He was really gifted at telling people about his Adventures, too.

[@wykrywaczbulszitu8773]

Co za beznadziejna śmierć. Rety rozumiem hobby , ale rywalizacja i poświęcanie życia na tak głupie cele to czyste marnotrawstwo. Współczuję rodzinie, to jak z narkomanem który niszczy życie a wszyscy są bezradni. Choć znajdą się tacy co doszukaja się w tym logiki, inspiracji a nawet przypiszą temu fałszywy sens. Moje kondolencje.

[@brunolima7402]

He died doing what he loved at least. RIP Ueli Steck, the legend.

[@sneekz07]

Should have honoured his wife's wishes not to solo climb.

[@Krystalmyth]

Most junkies do.

[@jimburg621]

would rather die doing something I hate, bonus is you never have to finish what ever it is.

[@Mrbfgray]

No doubt he knew how it would end just not when.

[@jakewest2524]

@Bruno Not even close..

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

he took way too many risks, there was no way you could watch much of him on film and not get the feeling this was how it was going to end. Admirable passion, spectacular skill, in the battle of man versus mountain, mountain always wins eventually.

[@borismuller86]

Clearly to do what he did at the level and speed that he did required a huge amount of calculated risks. There's a reason climbers like him are so rare.

[@101kmontgomery]

The Grinch beat the mountain but the Grinch isn't human so you're right.

[@robjones-qj2jj]

@borismuller86 Nothing rare at all. Most people just aren't stupid enough to do it

[@albertgarza1372]

You knew this is how it was going to end

[@TheObe1977]

This man truly was a machine , his climbs were breathtaking at a speed unthinkable if not impossible

[@robjones-qj2jj]

Machine of stupidity

[@TimesUp777]

Good videos dude but that voice is morbid. Lol

[@ViaFerrataCH]

Ueli used to train on his local mountain the Niesen by running up c.1 vertical mile, getting the funicular down then doing it all over again three times!

[@Krystalmyth]

Guess marriage isn't enough of a mountain for some men.

[@szabolcssanta403]

Jerzy Kukuczka is missing from the video , He is also a legend amd one of the best climber in the history!

[@Wearespurstv]

Do you think his muscle fibers/ blood circulation was different than the average humans or was he just naturally talented?

[@Lscott-fk2sn]

Don't use the word or when you say the same thing twice lmfao Wait nvm I think I missed the joke sorry lol

[@ONCEuponAtime999]

he said it once in some interview that all his strength comes from super hard training

[@sadeva6532]

Talent, dedication and a whole lot of hard work and training. He didn't just climb a mountain. He prepped for a long time, training hard, planned meticulously. There are interviews on youtube where he talks about his prep work. While talent plays a part, the dedication and passion he had and the work he put in made him the clmber he was.

[@mv11000]

Attention, insomniacs: this voice is guaranteed to put you to sleep.

[@rtrThanos]

Sorry, but Anatoli Boukreev is the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 T800 Terminator of mountain climbing. Not only did he go up Everest without O2 since Terminators don’t need oxygen, during the Everest disaster which killed and maimed many people he repeatedly went into the darkness:during a storm to find lost souls and bring them to safety. In a culture that finds it acceptable to leave people for dead due to the effort it takes to save them, Anatoli had the balls and the skills to go into the storm and bring people out of it. On the other hand, Beck was left for dead twice by people that never checked for a pulse and didn’t want to “waste” energy to bring him off the mountain. I’d rather have 1 Anatoli than 10 guys with speed records

[@jakewest2524]

Yes, true brave men. Unlike these rich cowards..

[@oliversmiddy840]

Steck assisted in plenty of rescues too…

[@andreweden9405]

Be careful, lest you end up like Icarus of old!

[@MegaAngryspoon]

Are some videos missing? I have only seen a couple mentioning Ueli Steck besides this

[@nneichan9353]

haven't seen enough vids about Ueli Steck.

[@dojajaje]

Dude was just playing with devil, everybody is taking step by step while climbing, he was running

[@philcarter2362]

Thank you so much for telling Ueli's story with such insight and tenderness.

[@ceebee2]

Wife asked him to stop and he didn’t; now she’s a widow. Never marry stubborn men obsessed with dangerous sports.

[@vanessaruiz4705]

quite sure she already knew when she married him.

[@JayB2]

Ueli is my favorite climber. It was said that he was one of the fittest climbers ever. His climb of the South Face of Annapurna in 28 hours is one of the top 3 greatest mountaineering achievements in history.

[@poutinedream5066]

I can't imagine being thousands of meters up some mountain desperately fighting for every foot, then having US go sprinting past, no oxygen, no equipment, just there and gone. I bet some people wonder if they imagined it.

[@frizzyrascal1493]

He did it SOLO too. Some people are just born different. While I don't believe that mountaineering is worth risking your life, I admire the bravery and courage these tasks require.

[@gwatteau8170]

The other two?

[@AnonymousProspect]

@@gwatteau8170 Messner Everest north face solo no ox, Kukuczka K2 Polish Line

[@ClimbingEasy]

The Swiss Machine

[@andrewblack7852]

Idnk how you told the story without the previous Everest incident with the Sherpa. They cursed him. He didn’t fall but was thrown off the mountain. Also was he not with the Italian climber on his last expedition??

[@paulramsey1255]

How do you conquer a mountain...that's the most idiotic statement founded in human arrogance and ego mania.

[@Glitch-nr9ct]

Yeah, prob better off to just take up pickleball or something.

[@jenlya3783]

That guy is a legend.

[@gregkosinski2303]

Great job of helping explain just how impressive his accomplishments are!

[@Torrque]

Hillary is nowhere near the legend of those you name. Were it not for Tenzing’s graciousness, the “first man” to conquer Sagaramatha/Chomolungma would indisputably have been Norgay. No disrespect intended for Hillary’s essential achievement but you cannot name a capably strong climber in the league of the superior Greats whoe excelled and pushed in ways Hillary was not capable of. Especially noting that Hillary climbed in the era of the siege style of huge expeditions of teams doing much of the lay-work.

[@sunsetlights100]

I wonder if doing dangerous activities like climbing if Ueli would qualify for insurance for his wife & family

[@Gematrinator]

Nahhh

[@sunsetlights100]

@@GematrinatorI guess that's tough then for his wife . High risk eh

[@richardjohnson4696]

I miss Ueli and his accomplishments, his fall was brutal, I have read a few stories that described the condition of his body after his fall, it was horrific, he was basically torn apart, as in being in pieces. Gruesome way to go for sure. Ueli paid the ultimate price, but he wasn't going to stop what he loved to do. I don't think it was a horrible death for him overall, if a warrior dies in battle, that is a fitting end for them, him dying in the mountains was a fitting end for him. I could never see Ueli ever growing old with what he was pushing in the mountains. I have no problem calling him the GOAT. Ueli will always be remembered, therefore, he is never gone.

[@magnitogorski]

I knew about Ueli in 2008 after the Annapurna rescue of Iñaki Ochoa, a great alpinist. I discovered not only great alpinist but incredible human beings such Ueli Steck, also Denis Urubko, Alexei Bolotov, Don Bowie and Horia Colibasanu. You can know more about here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZPJXmB4bZ2hg80 Unfortunatelly, we loss Bolotov and Ueli at the begining of two exiting projects in Everest.

[@theelephantintheroom69]

Can we just appreciate how eerie and manic the soft melody is in each video? The key, the tempo, the sound choice, the lack of a progression, the volume, the reverb. So chilling

[@ricardandres2883]

For real, it gives me goosebumps every time I watch his videos

[@troopieeeeee]

honestly it gets insanely grating to hear the exact same music loop over and over for 20+ minutes every single video. i wish he'd use it more sparingly

[@dougdavis8986]

Dork

[@CharlesFreck]

@@troopieeeeee Or get some variants

[@ClipperAJ]

have any of you seen the video of ueli being pelted by with rocks by some sherpas because he went climbing alone without proper gear on a tour?

[@TelPrank]

that wasn’t because of Ueli „went climbing alone“ but because him and his companion Moro from North-Italy didn’t PAY MONEY to sherpas while using sherpas ropes for free. Soon after one of the sherpas got in conflict with Moro so italian caused at sherpa‘s mother or calling sherpa g@y - so group of sherpas came for the revenge and started to trow stones at Ueli and Moro. Moro had to apologize while staying on his knees and while Ueli was hiding in a tent like a little pu$$y. A brave north american female climber step in between those two and angry sherpa thugs - saving their @sses that day. Well, its hard to say who’s mistake that was since no investigations took place by a nepali police. Who cares since most of those sherpas are dead by now, Ueli is gone, Moro is old. Our planet continue to rotate while days go by…😉

[@sendthis9480]

@@TelPrank Calm down drama queen. You have ZERO clue what exactly happened that day. You’re just regurgitating the only side of the story you know. Stop being so emotional.

[@TelPrank]

@@sendthis9480 youtube censorship

[@Bridge_with_a_T]

I think these were the main issues, if I can recall: He wasn't using the ropes/route that Sherpas had laid out that year so he thought he shouldn't have to pay and so they got really mad. Then Steck called one of them a motherf*cker, which I guess isn't a term in Nepalese so they took it literally.

[@linuxlife]

I think some of your facts are off - there's a great Reel Rock on it

[@ONCEuponAtime999]

Uli Steck, David Lama, Marc Andre LeClerc....the 3 best climbers of my generation..All dead...All legends !

[@brandonsavitski]

All 3 of these so called legends last words were: "Hory Chit Me Fall".

[@ONCEuponAtime999]

@@brandonsavitski wow. Have anybody ever told you, you are funny?

[@jonathonsmith8871]

@@brandonsavitskiwell technically only Ueli fell, David and Marc Andre were buried in avalanches

[@penelopelopez8296]

This guy was a great climber….no doubts about it. He tried his hardest to make his wife a widow and he succeeded.

[@JCO2002]

Haste makes waste, or in Ueli's case, death.

[@m118lr]

The REASON why the ‘early’ phenoms are SUCH LEGENDS..is the LACK of technology that has helped propel the later generations forward. That goes for ANY “sport”.

[@robertcottam8824]

I love the absolute parochialism of ‘Murcans: When supplying examples of sportsmen who are “so talented that no one can deny their greatness”, this Yank came up with Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan (?) whom nobody except ‘Murcans and a few sports nuts over sixty will ever have heard of. 😂

[@-dirk-65]

Seems it was never going to end any other way. A great loss & still young. A lesson for all to learn.

[@bathsheba56]

It's all well and good that mountaineers want to push the limits. But if you have family who depend on you, just as Rob Hall did, just as John Harlan did, well, is your drive so important to you that you would to a large degree sacrifice their futures:?? Maybe it's a bad comparison between Harlan and Hall, but it's the same thing. When you're married, your chief responsibiliy is to ferry your family through to fulfillment. I'd appreciate any opinions on this.

[@theidahotraveler]

Pretty late here over in idaho buddy like 12:30 but thanks 😊👍

[@zukosmom3780]

1:41 am here

[@newenglandcoast7121]

You do a great job with your videos; I really enjoy your channel! 👍

[@gregparrott]

Another tremendous mountaineer was David Lama. Sadly, he died quite young. One of his late accomplishments was a solo first ascent of 'Lunag Ri'. On his first two attempts, he climbed with the famous climber Conrad Anker. On the second attempt, Conrad suffered a heart attack, but was able to descend and be flown to a hospital for surgery. Conrad survived but stopped high altitude climbing. David returned a year or so later and solo'd Lunag Ri, being the first person to summit it. (There's a 3 minute, mostly drone video of this insane ascent kzbin.info/www/bejne/h36weHmQnZuqras) David and two other world class climbers later died in an avalanche following a very technical but successful summit in the Canadian rockies,.

[@WorldReviews]

He didnt know if his Lhotse project was possible as no one had climbed the route between Everest and Lhotse before. Ueli said in his video: It will be a success unless I die.

[@michaelbelmont5305]

.....why do some find it necessary to mention the obvious horrible things esp. When it comes to something as delicate like this tragedy?... Frozen cold stone vs clay....what's the outcome if you bash the two together?....the answer should be apparant?...so why mention the horrible?..if you ever seen something as such up close?...it will change you....well...hopefully at least...

[@thewalrus1968]

"Yeah my girlfriend climbs but I don't allow it without a rope ..it's too dangerous" AAAAAHHH SPLAT.

[@maxasaurus3008]

In my opinion, growing old is the ultimate sign of competence and skill both for elite alpinists and recovering drug addicts 😊.

[@atheistsince1210]

Love love LOVE your channel bro so damn addicting your narration style and eerie background music make mountaineering videos so comfortable to watch I’m glad for Electricity and a mortgage not going near that shit !

[@woody5109]

Climbing must be the epitome of narcissism, risking your life when you have a family at home. Getting in trouble means someone else has to risk their life to save yours….pathetic bunch.

[@justaguy4real]

One heck of a last memory falling to your death. Luckier than the WTC 9-11 fallers|jumpers tho bc he had a choice to climb.

[@katemaloney4296]

God gave me the gift of a healthy respect for heights. After watching these videos, I cherish my gift even more.

[@teogo]

Wonderful person, but it was only a matter of time.

[@stevesinner3501]

I'm sure glad they moved the Bonatti Pillar to the Alps that year... what would Ueli have done if he'd had to travel to, say, South Africa to climb it...

[@christinecallahan5512]

He also was a very friendly Person. NEVER arrogant and allways e best. In my mentel GALERY he's one of the FIRST PLACED. ---- REST in PEACE Dear Ueli ----- may the Angels allways be on your side..........

[@Teraclipse]

Great video and great lesson. But wow what an athlete and formidable person

[@gyadre]

Most number of summits and fastest were held by Sherpa. Almost every Sherpa family has one or two who summited but the there is discriminatory exclusion of Sherpa. Tenzin Norgay was not knighted but Hillary was which shows the racism as both of them were from British expedition. Ueli was a great climber but not a good person as he and his buddies were known for picking fist fight with Sherpa on the Everest.

[@AvadaVendetta]

Imagine summitting everest in a single day and then thinking you can do another mountain right after that. Talk about flying too close to the sun

[@MrDUKE375]

You were an inspiration to us all…. RIP

[@themobseat]

Mountain climbing seems to be as fatal a profession as pro wrestling.

[@FaiscaaaH]

Thanks for the video and all the info.

[@carl1776]

Crazy people.

[@craighall3820]

Wait. That's Nuptse? I'm lost again.

[@jonathanmartin2146]

I remember my brother showed me a video of Ueli climbing the Eiger in record time. I was impressed by two things: His talent, and his blatant disregard for his own life and for those who loved him. I told my brother - "I give him three years - max". I guess I was the stupid one - he lived 5 more years. There is a big reason the greats - Hillary and Meisner - lived into old age. They squandered not their talents.

[@TheLawCoyoteTLC]

Your sports analogy proves that you are a modern day intellectual!!!

[@dumbcat]

i traversed into bed at 2 am this morning. it was sketchy with my tricky hip but i made it.

[@humanbeing2420]

Are there many climbers who do what Steck did - climb without any protection - who survive for long? Like, eventually you're going to fall, right? Nobody's perfect. It just seems insane to me.

[@friedsensei]

No there are not, Alex Honnold thankfully retired from free soloing. As soon as snow and ice are involved, death is 100% guaranteed if you push past your prime. It's an arrogant and selfish endeavour if you have a wife, if you also have kids it makes you a genuinely awful person

[@cunhamatada]

was about to go to bed but you know i had to watch it. thanks for another great video

[@mikestand714]

may be whole bunch of new ones but i've noticed lot are trying to go too extreme and lot are not going to reach old age

[@rumpwrangler1102]

I once came down the North Face of the Eiger in about 15 seconds.

[@sarastewart358]

Do something right 20,000 times and the 20,001st time make a mistake

[@nealandersen4867]

He didn't care that much for his family, did he ?

[@neuymarc]

upspeak

[@builderpj]

Climbing is pointless. Cave diving is pointless.

[@NoName-oz3gj]

Rest in peace to this mountaineering legend. Thank you for all your insightful videos on 8000ers

[@alberta1st]

Sometimes confidence will defeat you RIP

[@christinecallahan5512]

Ueli steck ALWAYS was a VERY VERY gentle and NICE person........

[@tashaderosier7424]

Did you know him?🙂

[@rmarsh3309]

OMG, that voice!

[@Kariakas]

I remember when I learned about mountaineering after reading John Kraurer’ s Into Thin Air. Alex Honold really impressed and then I discovered Steck. When you know the history of the Eiger’s north face, you realize just how incredibly insane his speed runs of it are. Then to add that Annapurna ascension. I thought he’d be setting records for the 14 eight thousanders. And then tragedy struck, mountaineer lost a living legend. He really pushed the maximum potential a human can physically achieve.

[@kartyl1wielki]

I just hope you know that Kraurer's book was full of lies and false accusations.

[@Kariakas]

@@kartyl1wielki He's a great writer but was critical of Anatoli but he explained his criticism well and still gave him credit for the rescues he did. So while it's certainly John's perspective and not the necessarily the consensus, it is not at all lies and false accusations. Besides his take on Anatoli, I don't think there's anything else controversial about it, so it's definitely not "full" of anything.

[@rocnoir4233]

@@kartyl1wielki As were Ueli's claimed ascents of Annapurna and Shishapangma.

[@JB-rt4mx]

Eiger 2.5 hours...not 25 hours 😇🐿