Langnau im Emmental | Switzerland | Place of Birth for Ueli Steck, legendary Swiss Machine
Langnau im EmmentalUeli Steck: Legendary Swiss Machine climber dies on Everest.
The Swiss climber Ueli Steck has been killed on Mount Everest, Nepal's tourist office says.During the same year, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. A total of 39.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 9.2% is used for growing crops and 33.6% is pasturage, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops and 6.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[5]
The widely spread municipality is located on both sides of the Ilfis river and stretches to Napf mountain. It consists of the village of Langnau im Emmental and the hamlets that make up the seven parts of the Langnau parish; Langnau-Dorf, Frittenbach, Ilfis, Hühnerbach, Grossviertel (including Bärau), Rigenen and Gohl as well as about 20 alpine herding camps and meadows.
On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Signau, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.[6]
Coat of arms[edit]
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules three Fir Trees Vert trunked Or issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux of the second.[7]
Demographics[edit]
Emmi AG factory in Langnau
Old village center in Langnau
Langnau im Emmental has a population (as of December 2015) of 9,154.[8] As of 2012, 6.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 0.8%. Migration accounted for 0.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.0%.[9]
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (8,612 or 94.1%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (133 or 1.5%) and Italian is the third (80 or 0.9%). There are 35 people who speak French and 7 people who speak Romansh.[10]
As of 2008, the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female. The population was made up of 4,053 Swiss men (44.9% of the population) and 281 (3.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 4,434 Swiss women (49.2%) and 249 (2.8%) non-Swiss women.[11] Of the population in the municipality, 3,765 or about 41.2% were born in Langnau im Emmental and lived there in 2000. There were 3,075 or 33.6% who were born in the same
Steck, who was known as the Swiss Machine, died in an accident while acclimatising for an attempt on the mountain, without oxygen, by a new route.
The 40-year-old had won multiple awards and was known for his rapid ascents.
His body has been recovered from the mountain and flown to Kathmandu by helicopter.
On Wednesday Steck wrote on his Facebook page that he had a quick day from Basecamp up to 7,000m and back as he believed active acclimatisation was the most effective way of getting used to high altitude.
The climber reached Mount Everest's summit without oxygen in 2012, and in 2015 climbed all 82 Alpine peaks over 4,000m (13,100ft) in 62 rs of the sport, who took days to complete it.
Ueli Steck: El escalador legendario de la máquina suiza muere en el Everest.
El escalador suizo Ueli Steck murió en el monte Everest, según la oficina de turismo de Nepal.
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Ueli Steck: Le légendaire grimpeur Swiss Machine décède sur l'Everest.
Le grimpeur suisse Ueli Steck a été tué sur le mont Everest, a déclaré le bureau de tourisme du Népal.
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Lo scalatore svizzero Ueli Steck è stato ucciso sul Monte Everest, dice l'ufficio turistico del Nepal.
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Švicarski alpinist Ueli Steck je bil ubit na Mount Everest, turistični urad Nepala pravi.
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