Ueli Steck’s Death – Cause and Date

The mountain climber Ueli Steck died at the age of 40. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Swiss mountain climber remembered as one of the best best of his generation, setting numerous speed records and being named named National Geographic’s 2015 Adventurer of the Year. He perished while climbing the Hornbein route near Mount Everest in April 2017. 

He is survived by his wife Nicole Steck. 

Quotes

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I don’t worry about other people, and I don’t let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

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I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn’t want to be 45 and a dirtbag.

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These guys make a lot of money. Of course it’s hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality.

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It’s really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done – they are a big part of the history of alpinism.

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Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.