RECORD BREAKERS


FA:5T


LANE Two


of the world's fastest mountaineers are planning ground-breaking ascents of Everest. Sarah Stirling


R Ueli Steck in his element, racing up a pitch of near-vertical terrain on day one of the North Face of Cholatse, 2011.


“We’d already soloed a thousand feet of


perfect alpine ice when I took this shot. As the terrain steepened and the neve thinned, I told him I'd prefer to rope up. Thankfully, he obliged!” explained Freddie Wilkinson.


tries to catch up with Spanish mountain runner Kilian Jornet and Swiss speed climber Ueli Steck to ask: what drives them to live fast?


“I think this is the nice thing to go without camps, without Sherpas, without tents, without ropes, of course without oxygen...” Kilian Jornet is telling me about speeding up an 8,000-er on his fi rst visit to the Himalaya this year.


22 | 70TH ANNIVERSARY | FOR BRITISH CLIMBING AND WALKING SINCE 1944


PHOTO: FREDDIE WILKINSON


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