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Ueli Steck

1976 - 2017

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Ueli Steck (Alemannic German: [ˈuεli ʃtɛk]; 4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and alpinist. He was the first to climb Annapurna solo via its South Face (though this is disputed by some), and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Having previously summitted Mount Everest, Steck died on 30 April 2017, after a fall during an acclimatizing climb for an attempt on the Hornbein route on the north face of Everest without supplemental oxygen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ueli Steck is the 39th most popular mountaineer (down from 34th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 420th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Ueli Steck ranks 39 out of 56. Before him are Vittorio Sella, Riccardo Cassin, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Rob Hall, Apa Sherpa, and Verney Lovett Cameron. After him are Simone Moro, Oh Eun-sun, Bachendri Pal, Denis Urubko, Edurne Pasaban, and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Ueli Steck ranks 133. Before him are Marcelo Gallardo, Koji Okamoto, Rhona Mitra, Ali Larter, Song Seung-heon, and Ji Yun-nam. After him are Lindsay Davenport, Diego Tristán, Shagrath, Hasan Şaş, Remy Bonjasky, and Claire Williams. Among people deceased in 2017, Ueli Steck ranks 387. Before him are Li Li-hua, Sandra Reemer, Rosa Taikon, Vladimir Makanin, Hans Gerschwiler, and Marco Coll. After him are Paul G. Comba, Viktor Tsaryov, Danuta Szaflarska, Atanase Sciotnic, Yuriy Poyarkov, and Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ueli Steck ranks 534 out of 1,015. Before him are Walter Weiler (1903), Roger Bocquet (1921), Ernst Wetter (1877), Pipilotti Rist (1962), Walter Wild (1872), and Hans Gerschwiler (1920). After him are Gaudenzio Marconi (1841), Frank Séchehaye (1907), Hedy Schlunegger (1923), Arnold Henry Guyot (1807), Haris Seferović (1992), and Louis Ruchonnet (1834).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Switzerland

Among mountaineers born in Switzerland, Ueli Steck ranks 4. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), and Erhard Loretan (1959).

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