When a Japanese team completed a new direct route on the north face of the Eiger exactly 50 years ago, each climber needed much more than a small backpack, crampons and an ice axe. The five men ...

July 1938 The North Face of the Eiger contains numerous routes of varying difficulties. The easiest remains the classic route established in 1938. This ascends 1800 vertical meters with difficulties ...

The two British climbers Dave MacLeod and Calum Muskett have repeated Paciencia (8a, 900m) up the North Face of the Eiger. Dave MacLeod, known above all for his dangerous trad routes and his difficult ...

IFMGA Mountain Guide Tim Blakemore explains how to climb the Eiger. At 3,970m, the Eiger fails to hit the magical 4,000m height so collected in the Alps, and is much better for that. Its North Face is ...

IFMGA Mountain Guide Tim Blakemore explains how to climb the Eiger. At 3,970m, the Eiger fails to hit the magical 4,000m height so collected in the Alps, and is much better for that. Its North Face is ...

“The North Face of the Eiger is actually best climbed in winter, because ice and hard snow fuse together the fragile rock. It should be not too cold, so we can climb properly, but not too ...

As we write, Thomas Huber is on the legendary North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps ... All shared Huber's style and vision of climbing and lost their lives in the mountains.

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

The North Face of The Eiger is the most iconic vertical mile of crumbling ice and rock in the world. 64 people have died trying to climb it and now Steve Backshall is determined to give it a go.

He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian ... expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.