Month: May 2017

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The Last Days of Ueli Steck

How one of the world’s best mountaineers made a last-second decision that would take his life? On the evening of April 29, roughly 15 hours before world-renowned alpinist Ueli Steck died in a fall in Nepal last month, he sent a text message by sat
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Climbing partner recalls Ueli Steck after Everest tragedy

Tenji Sherpa and Ueli Steck, as in the past, had set out for mountaineering expeditions together in April. But fate had something unusual in stock for both of them this time. Steck's long-time climbing partner Sherpa suffered a frostbite on April 20
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