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 completing his ambitious Direttissima route. Fifty-nine years later, we look ...

The iconic Eiger stands proudly in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Standing 13,015 ft., it is one of the most recognized and beautiful peaks in the world. It represents one of the most cherished and ...

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 gave it ...

A mountaineering dispute continues to simmer after climber Stephan Siegrist questioned a new speed record set by Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger. Brugger and Hojac had climbed the north faces of the ...

On Tuesday 30 July Siebe Vanhee, supported Tommy Caldwell, succeeded in making a one-day ascent of Odyssee on the North Face of the Eiger. Boasting difficulties up to 8a+, this 33-pitch outing ...

THE CLIMB UP TO HELL (212 pp.)—Jack Olsen—Harper & Row ($4.95). For two years, tourists poured into the little Swiss Alpine town of Kleine Scheidegg to gawk at a grisly spectacle. Hanging by a rope ...

Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation By Clint Willis Carroll & Graf. 535 pp. $27.95 One of the drawbacks to being a big-mountain climber is that you end up with a lot of ...