Ueli Steck - My Life in Climbing

Informationen zum Autor Ueli Steck was born in 1976 and considered one of the world's best extreme climbers, and the single most successful climber ever from Switzerland. At only age 17, he mastered the highest rating of difficulty in climbing (9th level in UIAA), while his most spectacular achievement was the ascent in record time of each of the three most difficult north faces of the Alps. In 2008, Steck received the Eiger Award for his mountaineering achievements, and was awarded the Piolet d'Or, the "Oscar of Mountaineering," twice, in 2009 and again in 2014 for his first solo ascent of Annapurna. He died while on a training climb on the Himalayan peak Nuptse on April 30, 2017. Klappentext "Steck's documented passion for climbing makes this memoir bittersweet. Readers of outdoors literature will enjoy." -Library Journal Zusammenfassung "Originally published as Der nachste Schritt 2016 by Piper Verlag GmbH, Munchen/Berlin, published under the imprint Malik"--T.p. verso.

Product details

• Authors: Ueli Steck
• Assisted by: Billi Bierling (Translation)
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781680511321
• ISBN: 978-1-68051-132-1
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies