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Ueli Steck

1976 - 2017

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Ueli Steck (Alemannic German: [ˈuεli ʃtɛk]; 4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and alpinist. He was the first to climb Annapurna solo via its South Face (though this is disputed by some), and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ueli Steck has received more than 2,242,154 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Ueli Steck is the 34th most popular mountaineer (up from 38th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 489th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Ueli Steck ranks 34 out of 56. Before him are Peter Habeler, Fanny Bullock Workman, Erhard Loretan, Riccardo Cassin, Rob Hall, and Ardito Desio. After him are Vittorio Sella, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Verney Lovett Cameron, Simone Moro, Denis Urubko, and Bachendri Pal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Ueli Steck ranks 97. Before him are Sebastián Abreu, Torsten Frings, Hasan Şaş, Bérénice Bejo, Emma Bunton, and Elīna Garanča. After him are Eduard Heger, Jonathan Nolan, Mohamed al-Menfi, Aliou Cissé, Ľudovít Ódor, and Gábor Király. Among people deceased in 2017, Ueli Steck ranks 288. Before him are Brad Harris, François Van der Elst, Carlos Alberto Silva, Oleg Vidov, Yaakov Neeman, and Geoff Nicholls. After him are Katalin Szőke, Darlene Cates, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Hrvoje Šarinić, Anthony Harvey, and Paul G. Comba.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ueli Steck ranks 419 out of 1,015. Before him are Walter Thurnherr (1963), Albert Meyer (1870), Anita Traversi (1937), Aegidius Tschudi (1505), Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), and Hakan Yakin (1977). After him are Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), Stefano Franscini (1796), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), Pierre Cérésole (1879), and Roger Courtois (1912).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Switzerland

Among mountaineers born in Switzerland, Ueli Steck ranks 4. Before him are Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), and Erhard Loretan (1959).

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