No other mountain in the Alps elicits emotions like the Eiger. Foreboding and dominant above the Alpine village of Grindelwald, it has been the inspiration for Hollywood films, books and countless ...

On 6/08 American climber Dean Potter carried out the first FreeBASE ascent of Deep Blue Sea (Eiger, 5.12+/7b+), climbing without a rope but with a B.A.S.E. parachute. Solo up Deep Blue Sea, the 300m ...

The Eiger, 13,015 ft., in Switzerland presents ... The northern side of the mountain rises more than 10,000 ft. above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces ...

Christoph Hainz talks about his speed ascent up the North Face of the Eiger in 4 hours and 30 minutes. Christoph Hainz. Born in 1962, started climbing in 1982, Mountain Guide since 1992, he is also ...

It flew us up over the Jungfrau“ mountain in Switzerland, then I jumped out over the Jungfrau“ and flew towards the Eiger“ (there are three famous mountains, „eiger“, „mönch“ and ...

Adventurer Steve Backshall takes on one of the most notorious and deadly mountain climbs in the world - the north face of the Eiger. ABC iview Home Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview.

It's the side of the mountain range that gets all the sun during the early part of the ski season, and as you ascend you can see the famous Eiger, the Schreckhorn, the Wetterhorn and the ...