Inspirational Ueli Steck Famous Quotes at starsquotes

Inspirational Ueli Steck Famous Quotes at starsquotes

Ueli Steck was a Swiss rock climber and mountaineer, born 4 October 1976 to 30 April 2017. Through his notoriously challenging South Face, he was the first to climb Annapurna solo and set speed records on the Alps' North Face trilogy He won two awards for Piolet d'Or, in 2009 and 2014. Having previously summitted Mount Everest, Steck died on April 30, 2017 after falling for an attempt on the Hornbein route on Everest 's West Ridge without supplementary oxygen during an acclimatizing climb.

Ueli Steck Quotes:

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.

UELI STECK

Not all Sherpas are bad. There are a few who are crazy, but the rest are good people.

UELI STECK

I don’t need to come back to Everest.

UELI STECK

Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they want to take over the business and kick out the westerners. This is a big fight.

UELI STECK

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that’s good, because I don’t like it.

UELI STECK

The goal is not to solo. Of course, it is possible to move fast in alpine style also with a partner. I just need the right partner.

UELI STECK

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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.

UELI STECK

I don’t cheat.

UELI STECK

I don’t have a death wish. On the contrary, I’m hanging onto my life like never before.

UELI STECK
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