Taking light and fast to new heights!

That is fricking amazing! Wow.

Seeing someone push the envelope is incredibly cool and motivates me to get off my lazy butt and find my limits. Thanks for the post Kat. Are all the swiss mountain goats?

He is incredible! Mountain Goats....are you saying that because you know that is my user name on another forum???
Kidding aside, you do see people in their seventies, bowed legs, not even trying to work out, just hiking up the steepest stairs, just to check on a goat, or look at the flowers....
I have known about Ueli Steck for a few years, and now a reel of him is part of the Banff Film Festival, which I will be going to see tomorrow night.
Ueli climbed the Eiger in 2 hrs, 47 minutes, with half a liter of water, an energy bar and three energy powders.

Edited by Kat_P on 03/03/2011 18:21:41 MST.

Which route on the Eiger? There are several. A few of which would make his type of climbing impossible.

ueli steck and alex honnold are sick puppays ...

alex soloing half down 2000 ft with no rope ... one mistake and youre a pancake breakfast for the bears ...

http://vimeo.com/11687754

edit ... david, he did the original 1938 Heckmair Route ...

as to goats ...

Edited by bearbreeder on 03/03/2011 19:00:59 MST.

The North Face



And if you understand Swiss and German

Edited. Sorry my answer missed your question

Edited by Kat_P on 03/03/2011 19:44:30 MST.

Heckmair route I believe. (Eric beat me to it:) It really is incredible what certain individuals can achieve.

I have just finished reading Joe Simpson's book The Beckoning Silence, which describes one of the early attempts on the North Face by Andreas Hinterstoisser, Toni Kurz, Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer. The contrast between this and Steck's climb couldn't be starker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjJBu0xiwc

Edited by jephoto on 03/03/2011 19:53:32 MST.

Don't these guys have Moms?!

There's a good movie from a couple of years ago about the Kurz/Angerer attempt on the north face of Eiger called "North Face/Norwand".

Edited by davidlutz on 03/03/2011 20:33:38 MST.

Unreal! Did I see him running along a knife edge with a pack full of gear!?

You got me fired up Katarina! That guy moves like a mountain goat.

Its all CGI, obviously.

CGI? You are joking, obviously.

;)

"CGI? You are joking, obviously."

No no, he meant it. CGI - this Climbing Guy's Incredible.....

eugene .... in crampons no less

ueli ... "swiss mountaineeing is very traditional ... you cant run in crampons thats a big no no ..." or something like that

next thing you know ueli is running at the top of the eiger in crampons

the mental control these people have is sheer sickness ... knowing that one wrong move means death

I just threw up. In my mouth.

I watched this movie at the Banff Mtn Film Festival tour here in Santa Barbara last week. This guy is amazing. I can't believe the amounts of physical and mental strength it takes to travel that fast through that kind of terrain. Talk about stamina!

Just about equally impressive was another film about a free solo climber whose taken to climbing with a base jumping rig so that when/if he falls during one of his climbs, he pulls the cord and turns, what would have been a fatal mistake, into a parachute descent.

It amazing to see how folks are pushing the different disciplines of climbing farther and farther every year.

Amazing. Simply amazing!

Thanks for the post.

Amazing... and lucky! I'm sure he knows what he's doing, but to me it looks like he takes a LOT of risks. At that pace, I can't believe he's choosing his route or footings with the same diligent focus he would at a slower pace. Snap decisions kill, and from the looks of it, he's relying as much on luck as skill.