“Summit, alone, South Face,” was the text that Ueli Steck sent from base camp at 10:00 p.m. on October 9. He was referring to his solo ascent—the first ever—of the south face of Nepal’s ...

Krzysztof Wielicki soloed the south face of Xixabangma in 1993, following the 50° snow couloir to the right of the 1982 British route. In 2006 Slovenian mountaineer Pavle Kozjek soloed a partial new ...

Annapurna South Face Tomaz Humar: the red line marks the ascent route chosen by Tomaz Humar, while the orange line indicates the route climbed by Hajzer-Kukuczka Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

Annapurna, South Face by Tomaz Humar "I climbed a new route in pure alpine style without knowing that a team climbed this wall in 1988 not far from my new route. I climbed the route in just 2 days (up ...

On May 21, 2007 Steck was hit by a rock at an altitude of about 5,500m during his attempt to solo the South Face of Annapurna I. The rock sent him tumbling down the face for about 300 metres ...