{"id":44154,"date":"2017-05-06T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=44154"},"modified":"2017-05-06T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T11:46:07","slug":"ueli-steck-famed-alpinist-dead-at-40-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=44154","title":{"rendered":"Ueli Steck, famed Alpinist, dead at 40 in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958), Rain*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“People forget something: in climbing, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing,” he told Outsideonline.com<\/a> in 2010. “If you do a speed ascent, you’re the fastest up the Eiger’s North Face, nothing’s going to change in the world. But maybe your world is going to change. In the evening, when you’re going to bed, you know exactly what you have done. And that’s what it’s all about….If it’s your challenge, and you’re happy with it, that’s the most important thing.” \u00a0Ueli Steck, quoted in the\u00a0Alpinist<\/a><\/p>\n

*Yokoyama Taikan was the pseudonym of a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga. His real name was Sakai Hidemaro. Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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