No other mountain in the Alps elicits emotions like the Eiger. Foreboding and dominant above the Alpine village of Grindelwald, it has been the inspiration for Hollywood films, books and countless ...

No other mountain in the Alps elicits emotions like the Eiger. Foreboding and dominant above the Alpine village of Grindelwald, it has been the inspiration for Hollywood films, books and countless ...

“I thought the best and only way to attempt the notorious Eiger north face was to climb in a group of people tied together with a rope of trust, that is, they trusted each other from the bottom ...

On 6/08 American climber Dean Potter carried out the first FreeBASE ascent of Deep Blue Sea (Eiger, 5.12+/7b+), climbing without a rope but with a B.A.S.E. parachute. Solo up Deep Blue Sea, the 300m ...

A massive rockfall blasted down the treacherous North Face of the Eiger on September 7th. The thunderous explosion distributed mountainous dust throughout the Swiss valley below the iconic peak.

Lüscher is the 13th person who Bomio has helped to the summit along this route. Climbing the Eiger is not for the faint-hearted. It involves traversing a narrow ridge with steep drops of several ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

They've has a good night's sleep and are ready to check out the mountain before tomorrow's climb.

Next up are the Eiger and the Matterhorn, both of which provide plenty of scenic challenges. And so it goes. Cycling. Climbing. Repelling or paragliding. Cycling. Climbing. Concrete gives way to ...

The retelling of their ordeal by Jack Olsen, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is an engrossing study of the dark drives that make men climb. To Claudio Corti, 29, the Eiger was an obsession.