At 3,970m, the Eiger fails to hit the magical 4,000m ... The big decisions on the route are when to put your crampons on (in good conditions near or even on the summit) and how to descend the South ...

“I thought the best and only way to attempt the notorious Eiger north face was to climb ... a near straight line from the base to the summit. The route has been known since as the “Japanese ...

After two years of meticulous planning, in April 2015 America’s JT Holmes made a jaw-dropping jump off the North Face of the Eiger. Starting from the summit of this legendary mountain, the 35-year-old ...

While Steck had previously climbed the Eiger 38 times, yesterday’s was Burgada's first. “Combining trail running and mountaineering” as Steck explained, from the car at Grindelwald to the summit and ...

(Summit Fever is also a 2022 motion picture, starring Ryan Phillippe, about an English mountaineer’s quest to climb the ...

The face was over 5,000ft tall: “a sheer black wall of north-facing limestone, steeper than the Eiger, one-and-a-half ... they were just 100m from the summit. By now they were being pelted ...

At 3,970m, the Eiger fails to hit the magical 4,000m ... The big decisions on the route are when to put your crampons on (in good conditions near or even on the summit) and how to descend the South ...