The world-renowned climber Ueli Steck has died in an accident on Mount Everest, which he was preparing to climb alone on a new route and without oxygen. He is thought to have fallen 1,000m down an ice ...

Legendary Swiss rock climber and mountaineer Ueli Steck died Sunday in an accident in Nepal, his family said. "Ueli Steck was killed while trying to climb Mount Everest and the Lhotse," the family ...

UELI STECK, known in mountaineering circles as the Swiss Machine thanks to a short film of the same name documenting his feats, promised his wife that he was done soloing. But when the 34-year-old ...

CLIMBING -- The 3,280-foot tumble to the doom of famed mountaineer Ueli Steck, 40, near Mount Everest in Nepal this weekend chilled and saddened climbing enthusiasts around the world, but surprised no ...

Nick Paumgarten on Ueli Steck, one of the most distinguished mountain climbers in the world, and excerpts from the short film "The Swiss Machine," that features Steck speed-climbing the North Face of ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents — including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than two months — died Sunday in a mountaineering accident near ...