When a Japanese team completed a new direct route on the north face of the Eiger exactly 50 years ago ... In this archive footage from Swiss public television, the climbers show their route ...

Mountaineers Thomas Huber, 58, and Stfan Siegrist, 52, have been working on a new route on the North Face of the ... throughout the Swiss valley below the iconic peak. The Eiger, 13,015 ft., ...

On 21 February Ueli Steck climbed the North Face of the Eiger via the route climbed by the first ascentionists Heckmaier, Vörg, Kasparek and Harrer in an incredible 3 hours 54 minutes. The Swiss ...

Swiss climber Stephan Siegrist has made the first successful redpoint ascent of "Magic Mushroom" up the North Face of the Eiger. The route had been established in 2007 by Roger Schäli and Christoph ...