In reply to Mr Fuller:
> (In reply to UKC News) I think the traffic might be low because some people (myself very-much included) don't realise how hard this is. I can barely even understand how you get up the Eiger in less than a day (let alone a morning), and this is just totally out of my realm of imagination. Are solos on Himalayan peaks very, very unusual? I guess soloing new routes is doubly-so? How high is the face, how long is the route? Apart from that, well done Ueli Steck - completely incredible.
8000 feet or so. To use an overused word, it's awesome. I camped in the Sanctuary - the basin overlooked by the Face - more than 25 years ago and it's still one of my lifetime high points (literally as well as figuratively). The S face is huge - almost too big to get your head around when you look up at it. Soloing it is, to me, unimaginable.