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 ...

The video of the march 2013 attempt by Andy Kirkpatrick, Ross Kain and Neil Chelton to repeat the Russian route up the North Face of the Eiger. Talk about baptism of fire: in March 2013 Andy ...

The North Face of the Eiger. In 1974 Peter Habeler climbed the Heckmair route in a record time of 10 hours together with Reinhold Messner. Now the 74-year-old has climbed the mountain once again, this ...

Mountaineers Thomas Huber, 58, and Stfan Siegrist, 52, have been working on a new route on the North Face of the iconic Eiger for over five years. Huber and Alpinist Jonas Schild, 32, recently ...