Ueli Steck em Pointe Walker
créditos: © Ueli Steck
Ainda não está esclarecido como morreu ado alpinismo. Nos últimos anos, foram várias as mortes trágicas provocadas por avalanches em várias regiões do mundo. E o Monte Everest já tem antecedentes que não devem ser esquecidos. Falamos de Dan Fredinburg que morreu há dois anos, no dia 25 Abril 2015 e outros alpinistas no Nepal.
Fez também um ano no passado dia 19 Abril que morreu num acidente provocado por um avalanche, desta vez nos Alpes Suiços, Estelle Balet, suiça, conceituada e experiente campeã mundial de snowboard extreme.
"Quick Day from Basecamp up to 7000m and back. I love it its such a great place here. I still believe in active aclimatisation. This is way more effective then spending Nights up in the Altitude!"
Ueli Steck/ Facebook
credits: The Hymalian Times, 2017
Ueli Steck morreu num acidente de alpinismo perto do Monte Evereste, no Nepal, segundo informações dos organizadores da expedição.
O alpinista morreu no campo 1 do Monte Nuptse. O corpo foi recuperado do local e levado para Lukla, onde se encontra o único aeroporto da região do Monte Evereste.
Segundo os organizadores da expedição, não está ainda esclarecido como Ueli Steck morreu, mas sabe-se que planeava escalar 8.850 metros (29.035 pés) do Monte Evereste, seguindo-se no próximo mês o Monte Lhotse.
O alpinista suíço torna-se a primeira vítima mortal da temporada de primavera no Nepal, que começou em Março e terminará em Maio.
Em 2013, Ueli Steck alcançou a primeira escalada individual do lado sul do Anapurna, no Nepal, depois de ter quase perdido a vida numa queda na mesa zona em 2007.
Por este feito recebeu o prémio que é considerado o Óscar do montanhismo: o 'Piolet d’Or'.
Em 2015, Steck decidiu escalar os 82 picos acima dos 4.000 metros nos Alpes. Viajou entre montanhas a pé, de bicicleta e parapente. Completou esta missão em 62 dias, o que consolidou a sua reputação como “Máquina Suíça”.
Numa entrevista no mês passado à publicação suíça Tages-Anzeiger, Ueli Steck considerou-se como um ‘outsider’ no montanhismo, porque as conquistas atléticas eram para ele mais relevantes do que a aventura.
Ueli Steck em Annapurna
créditos: Autor não identificado
Questionado então sobre a próxima expedição ao Evereste e ao Lhotse, afirmou:
“No Evereste posso parar em qualquer ponto. O risco é, portanto, bastante pequeno. Para mim é principalmente um projecto físico”.
“Quero escalar o Evereste e o Lhotse. Mas é uma meta muito alta. Falhar seria para mim morrer e não voltar para casa”, afirmou na mesma entrevista a propósito da expedição onde acabou por perder a vida ontem, dia 30 Abril 2017.
Famed Swiss climber Ueli Steck was killed Sunday April 30 in a mountaineering accident near Mount Everest in Nepal, expedition organizers said.
Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks said Steck was killed at Camp 1 of Mount Nuptse. His body has been recovered from the site and taken to Lukla, where the only airport in the Mount Everest area is located.
According to a report on The Himalayan times website, Swiss Alpinist Ueli Steck - known as the 'Swiss Machine' - has died in an accident on Mount Everest. His body was discovered by six rescuers near the Nuptse Face of Everest on Sunday morning local time.
The 40 year-old held numerous speed records, notably the North Face trilogy in the Alps.
A group of six rescuers discovered a body of the multiple-record holder mountaineer near the Nuptse Face of Mt Everest where he could have slipped and fell on the ice-covered slope. Fellow mountaineers had seen him climbing Mt Nuptse alone at around 4:30 am.
Steck's family said the exact circumstances of his death were still unclear.
"The family is infinitely sad and asks that the media refrain from speculating about his death out of respect and consideration for Ueli," it said in a statement on Steck's website.
"As soon as reliable information about Ueli Steck's death becomes available, the media will be informed."
Steck was planning to climb 8,848-metre Mount Everest and nearby Mount Lhotse (8,516 metres) next month.
The 40-year-old Steck was one of the most renowned mountaineers of his generation. He was best known for his speed-climbing, including setting several records for ascending the north face of the Eiger, a classic mountaineering peak in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland that he climbed in two hours and 47 minutes without using a rope.
Steck once said he considered himself an "outsider" in the mountaineering scene because athletic achievement was more important to him than adventure.
In a recent post on his website, Steck mused about the transience of success in mountaineering and the inevitable decline that comes with age.
"A record is broken again and again, and the world keeps on turning," he wrote. "You are getting older, and there comes a time when you have to adjust your projects to your age." Read more here
Last Monday, Mr. Steck told his Facebook followers that preparations for what would be his last expedition were going well. And in his YouTube video posted before his climb, he described himself as “super ready, I mean I’m so psyched,” adding, “For me the project is already a success.”
Last Monday, Mr. Steck told his Facebook followers that preparations for what would be his last expedition were going well. And in his YouTube video posted before his climb, he described himself as “super ready, I mean I’m so psyched,” adding, “For me the project is already a success.”
A year ago, on 19 April 2016, Swiss snowboarding champion Estelle Balet was killed in an avalanche. We honored her at Earth Day 2016.
RIP Ueli Steck ! Our tribute :-(
Geração 'explorer'
01.05.2017
