Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like many serious climbers, I’ve long dreamed of climbing the Eiger Nordwand, the north face of the Alps’ most notorious peak. Fortunately, I always wake up ...
The hike offers dramatic views of the Swiss Alps’ ‘murder wall’ – and poignant insights into the climbers who first braved it. For the son of one of those pioneers, it had a special resonance A few ...
Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger have shattered a 21-year-old record, scaling the north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in just 15 hours and 30 minutes. This is how they did it. Swiss pro ...
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The North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland had not been conquered by an American -- or a woman -- until Saturday. Americans Sasha DiGiulian, 22, and Carlo Traversi, 27, free climbed Magic Mushroom, ...
HIKING beneath the north face of the Eiger, I peered up and marvelled at how any human being could climb such a vertical rockface of such a mighty mountain, stretching far into the sky above the ...
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