Dane Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Wow, that footage is gorgeous... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMcJizzy Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 How old is Allen Steck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky_joe Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 it's Ueli, not Allen. and he's 34. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 beautiful photography wish I had lungs like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkMcJizzy Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 How old is Allen Steck? it's Ueli, not Allen. and he's 34. Duh, I was making a little joke joke, which unfortunately went right over your thick skull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriss Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 How old is Allen Steck? 80 plus probably. Steck as in Steck-Salathe'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Amazing. Question? How does he get off? What did he do with his skis? Did the camera crew get them or will he return for them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Normally you rap/down climb/walk off the back side in the gully (Breche des Doites) where Steck finishes in the video and walk home. That would require another couple hr ski in to retrieve your skiis when you have time. Steck obviously would have a lot of spare time compared to most Now a days many just carry small skis up the route and rap a bit then ski back to the valley and hitch to Cham. Bunch of ways to do it though. My understanding is: "We (Helicopter) dropped Ueli's skis off the south side of the mountain so after descending the South side he picked his skis up at the shrund and skied back down to town, Jon" Back in town for lunch? Mind you that is 1000m of ice and mixed up to M5 (once considered the hardest mixed climb in the Alps. Still with a very good reputation) and done in 2 hrs] by Steck as a "fun" climb, not a speed ascent! A friend who had done the climb once described it as doing something similar to "The lower face is ike doing the North Face of Athabasca, then Takkakaw Falls, then Cascade". Then with another patch of snow slope to get to the Breche des Doites. All three climbs stacked on top of one another of course. Parapente is a common decent as well and likely faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_rutl Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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