Forget Clint Eastwood dangling from the north face of the Eiger, fighting for his life, in the 1975 questionable classic The Eiger Sanction. There’s an even more action-packed, less narratively ...

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 ...

On Saturday morning, a major rockfall occurred on the North Face of the Eiger, covering the Swiss valley in a cloud of dust. A cloud of dust remained for hours after the rockfall. Photo: ...

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 ...

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, ...

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