On 2 August Roger Schäli and Robert Jasper made the first free ascent of the Piola - Ghilini Direttissima (1400m, 7c) on the north face of the Eiger. At the start of August Switzerland's Roger Schäli ...

Interview with British alpinist Tom Ballard after the first ascent of ‘Titanic' (A3/M5/6b, 2000m), a new climb up the North Face of the Eiger (Switzerland), first ascended together with Marcin ...

The Eiger is infamous for the many tragedies involving climbing expeditions. Since 1935, at least 64 climbers have died attempting the north face. The first successful ascent of the North Face ...

After working on a new route on the North Face of the Eiger for three days ... "We were able to set up our first bivouac and made two new pitches," Thomas Huber wrote on social media.

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 ...