Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it’s all beginning to go to speed. Ueli Steck Read Quote
I don’t have a death wish. On the contrary, I’m hanging onto my life like never before. Ueli Steck Read Quote
Not all Sherpas are bad. There are a few who are crazy, but the rest are good people. Ueli Steck Read Quote
You can, maybe, do something like Annapurna once in a lifetime. Then don’t try to do it again. Ueli Steck Read Quote
These guys make a lot of money. Of course it’s hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality. Ueli Steck Read Quote
I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn’t want to be 45 and a dirtbag. Ueli Steck Read Quote
During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can’t lose your fear – it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die. Ueli Steck Read Quote
I don’t worry about other people, and I don’t let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do. Ueli Steck Read Quote
