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30/04/2017 Mountain climber Ueli Steck dies in a mountaineering accident

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Swiss Climber Death: Shabaaz Moghal on the death of Ueli Steck

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Ueli Steck | Mountaineering Legend | Trans World Sport

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Last video Interview | Ueli Steck at Everest Base Camp (24-04-2017 at EBC Nepal)

Steck died while acclimatizing for an attempt of the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplemental oxygen. This route had been climbed only a few times, the last of which was in 1991. His plan was to climb the Hornbein Couloir to the summit, then proceed with a traverse to the peak of Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain.