This former graveyard of the ambitious into a playground for professionals. A journalist photographs the Eiger north face during a Media event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a fighter pilot stationed in Germany during the 1960s, John Harlin II spent every free minute climbing in the Alps. Soon he became obsessed with one ...

While Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” dealt exhaustively with the 1936 Olympics competition in Berlin, Philipp Stölzl’s “North Face” impressively dramatizes a lesser-known event that led up to the Games.

THE Eiger – which translates as the Ogre- is is a 13,000ft mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It became famous in the 1930s when people would gather to catch glimpses of climbing parties ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of the world's most famous climbs may not be for much longer. Mountaineers are being warned that the north face of the Eiger has ...

Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger have shattered a 21-year-old record, scaling the north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in just 15 hours and 30 minutes. This is how they did it. Swiss pro ...

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 ...

I have always skipped over holiday articles about the Alps, put off by photographs of brightly clad skiers whizzing down the slopes. It looked wonderful but it didn’t seem like a promising destination ...

The peak became famous in the 1930s when people would gather to catch glimpses of climbing parties ascending its vertical face THE Eiger – which translates as the Ogre- is is a 13,000ft mountain in ...