You’ve probably heard about 22-year-old firecracker Sasha DiGiulian – part pro climber, part Columbia University student – trying to make the first female ascent of La Paciencia, the hardest route on ...

Extremely stable conditions across the Swiss Alps have resulted in an unprecedented run of ascents of the classic 1938 Heckmair route on the North Face of the Eiger, the most remarkable of which is no ...

On March 25, the 25-year-old Austrian alpinist Laura Tiefenthaler soloed the historic Heckmair Route (M5; 5,900 feet) on the North Face of The Eiger (13,015 feet). Hers is just the second known female ...

Details of the first one-day ascent of La Vida es Silbar up the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, carried out on 23 July by Roger Schaeli and Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll. A week ago we reported ...

CHARLES Barrington was known as a traveller, risk-taker and would do anything for a bet. And 150 years ago he did something truly remarkable. Armed with little more than tweed clothing, hobnailed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 22, 1966, American climber John Harlin fell 1,000m to his death on the Eiger’s North Face. He was just 600m from ...

Backed by her history as a competitive indoor climber and a sport climber, DiGiulian’s bold attempt at La Paciencia was a break from her climbing roots and a rude introduction — it has been called one ...