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Mar 3, 2011 at 4:48 pm #1270015

Kattt
BPL Member

@kattt

Taking light and fast to new heights!

Mar 3, 2011 at 5:03 pm #1704126

BlackHatGuy
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@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

That is fricking amazing! Wow.

Mar 3, 2011 at 5:09 pm #1704129

Hiking Malto
BPL Member

@gg-man

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?

Mar 3, 2011 at 5:15 pm #1704130

Kattt
BPL Member

@kattt

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.

Mar 3, 2011 at 5:56 pm #1704149

David Ure
Member

@familyguy

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

Mar 3, 2011 at 5:58 pm #1704150

James holden
BPL Member

@bearbreeder-2

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 …

Mar 3, 2011 at 6:09 pm #1704155

Kattt
BPL Member

@kattt

The North Face

And if you understand Swiss and German

Edited. Sorry my answer missed your question

Mar 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm #1704160

Jason Elsworth
Spectator

@jephoto
Locale: New Zealand

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

Mar 3, 2011 at 7:33 pm #1704187

David Lutz
Member

@davidlutz
Locale: Bay Area

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".

Mar 3, 2011 at 7:54 pm #1704203

Eugene Smith
BPL Member

@eugeneius
Locale: Nuevo Mexico

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

Mar 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm #1704206

Jay Wilkerson
BPL Member

@creachen
Locale: East Bay

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

Mar 3, 2011 at 8:09 pm #1704214

David Ure
Member

@familyguy

Its all CGI, obviously.

Mar 3, 2011 at 8:46 pm #1704232

Kattt
BPL Member

@kattt

CGI? You are joking, obviously.

Mar 4, 2011 at 8:12 am #1704352

David Ure
Member

@familyguy

;)

Mar 4, 2011 at 8:26 am #1704358

BlackHatGuy
Spectator

@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

"CGI? You are joking, obviously."

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

Mar 4, 2011 at 8:55 am #1704381

James holden
BPL Member

@bearbreeder-2

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

Mar 4, 2011 at 9:14 am #1704390

David Ure
Member

@familyguy

I just threw up. In my mouth.

Mar 4, 2011 at 10:45 am #1704427

Nico .
BPL Member

@nickb
Locale: Los Padres National Forest

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.

Mar 4, 2011 at 11:06 am #1704436

Aaron Benson
Member

@aaronmb
Locale: Central Valley California

Amazing. Simply amazing!

Thanks for the post.

Mar 4, 2011 at 9:35 pm #1704674

Ken K
Member

@thefatboy
Locale: St. Louis

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.
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