Tag: Ueli Steck

Nepalese Manaslu winter expedition: “We have confidence in our abilities”

“We have had this project in mind for a long time,” Tenji Sherpa writes to me. “Now is a good time to realize it. We as representatives of the young generation want to send a positive message to the world that Nepal’s mountains are a safe des
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Legendary climber’s Nepali protégé wants to fulfil Swiss Machine’s dream.

On May 24, Tejni Sherpa, 27, summited Mount Everest for the fourth time as he and alpine photographer Johnathan Griffith became the last people to summit the highest peak of the world this spring season. Unlike his previous three accents of the worl
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Tenji Sherpa scales Mt Everest in memory of Ueli Steck

A 27-year-old Sherpa climber scaled Mt Everest this morning in honor of the world’s famous alpinist who lost his life in an accident near Camp II on Mt Everest last year. Tenjing (Tenji) Sherpa of Gudel, Solukhumbu made it to the roof of the wor
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Ueli Steck’s Death Anniversary: Climbers follow the ‘Swiss Machine’ footsteps

File photo of Ueli Steck. Courtesy: epictv “One year ago today, Ueli Steck didn’t return from one of his acclimating tours in his beloved Himalayan mountains.” On behalf of the Ueli’s family, spokesperson Andreas Bantel today circulat
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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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Swiss Machine, Ueli Steck killed in Mt Everest accident

Ueli Steck (41), popularly known as ‘Swiss Machine’ in the mountaineering world, was killed in an accident near Camp II on Mt Everest on Sunday morning, multiple sources at the base camp of the world’s highest peak confirmed. A group of six
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