来自MSN1 个月
A New Route Up the Extreme North Face of the Eiger Will Have to Wait
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 ...
PlanetMountain8 年
Eiger North Face / Tom Ballard Titanic interview
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 ...
Swissinfo5 年
How Japanese climbers pioneered the Eiger’s most direct route
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 ...
PlanetMountain6 年
Eiger North Face: English winter attempt of Russian route
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 ...
Yardbarker1 个月
A New Route Up the Extreme North Face of the Eiger Will Have to Wait
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 ...