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Maybe they’ll follow in the path of Ueli Steck, one of the best extreme solo climbers in the world. But maybe they’ll just become professional climbing and mountaineering tour organizers, and they’ll still have fulfilled their dream. (SF-swissinfo.ch)
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Steck returns to deadly Annapurna South Face
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Ueli Steck is returning to Annapurna I – the tenth-highest mountain in the world – where he survived a 300-metre fall down a sheer ice cliff in May 2007. swissinfo spoke to him in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu as he prepared to head for the mountains. This year the soloist has teamed up with compatriot…
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