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Originally published as Der nächste Schritt

© 2016 by Piper Verlag GmbH, München/Berlin, published under the imprint Malik

Translation copyright © 2018 by Billi Bierling

Afterword copyright © 2018 by Steve House

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Distributed in the United Kingdom by Cordee, www.cordee.co.uk

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Copyeditor: Chris Dodge

Design and layout: Heidi Smets

Cover photograph: Ueli Steck (Photo by PatitucciPhoto)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Steck, Ueli, author. | Steinbach, Karin, author. | Bierling, Billi, translator.

Title: Ueli Steck : my life in climbing / by Ueli Steck, with Karin Steinbach; translated by Billi Bierling.

Description: Seattle, Washington: Mountaineers Books, [2018] | Series: Legends and Lore Series | “Originally published as Der nachste Schritt

2016 by Piper Verlag GmbH, Munchen/Berlin, published under the imprint Malik” -- T.p. verso.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017040143| ISBN 9781680511321 (pbk) | ISBN 9781680511338 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Steck, Ueli. | Mountaineers--Switzerland--Biography.

Classification: LCC GV199.92.S73 S74 2018 | DDC 796.522092 [B] --dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040143

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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-68051-132-1

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-68051-133-8