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Ueli Steck Speed Climbs Himalayas

Ueli Steck’s Project Himalaya from Mountain Hardwear on Vimeo . Is a mountain really ‘climbed’ until it’s done Alpine? It’s something that’s troubled me for a while, and can’t really take an ascent of Everest seriously until it’s climbed in one push. I hope to see this in my lifetime, but haven’t until now been so excited at the prospect that this might be achieved in the near future. Last I’d heard Ueli Steck had given up the discipline of speed ascents due to the severe danger of it