Amy Sancetta remembers meeting Steck in 1987, when Steck led Sancetta and a small team of journalists to cover a plane crash in Detroit for the AP. Racing to the scene, Steck coordinated the team's ...

Steck was planning to climb 8,850-meter Mount Everest and nearby Mount Lhotse next month. He was the first climbing casualty in the spring mountaineering season in Nepal that began in March and ...