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1093:. When the weather improved, they preliminary explored the lowest part of the face. Hinterstoisser fell 37 metres (121 ft) but was not injured. A few days later, the four men finally began the ascent of the face. They climbed quickly, but on the next day, after their first bivouac, the weather changed; clouds came down and hid the group from the observers. They did not resume the climb until the following day, when, during a break, the party was seen descending, but the climbers could be seen only intermittently from the ground. The group had no choice but to retreat since Angerer had suffered serious injuries from falling rock. The party became stuck on the face when they could not recross the difficult Hinterstoisser Traverse, from which they had taken the rope they had first used to climb it. The weather then deteriorated for two days. They were ultimately swept away by an avalanche, which only Kurz survived, hanging on a rope. Three guides started on a precarious rescue attempt. They failed to reach him but came within shouting distance and learned what had happened. Kurz explained the fate of his companions: one had fallen down the face, another was frozen above him, and the third had fractured his skull in falling and was hanging dead on the rope. 1045:. The following day, facing greater difficulties, they gained little height. On the third day, they made hardly any vertical gain. That night, the weather deteriorated, bringing snow and low clouds that shrouded the mountain from the observers below. Avalanches began to sweep the face. Two days later, the weather briefly cleared, and the two men were glimpsed a little higher and about to bivouac for the fifth night before clouds descended again. A few days later, the weather finally cleared, revealing a completely white north face. Weeks later, the German World War I ace 184: 191: 1550: 813: 1299: 473: 995: 1564: 754: 1069: 590: 1186: 1124:. Although the effort was unsuccessful, they were nonetheless the first climbers who returned alive from a serious attempt on the face. They started the climb on 11 August and reached a high point of a few rope lengths above Death Bivouac. A storm broke, and after three days on the wall, they had to retreat. This was the first successful withdrawal from a significant height on the wall. 906: 1133: 976:
about four hours. Barrington describes reaching the top, saying, "The two guides kindly gave me the place of the first man up." After the descent, the party was escorted to the Kleine Scheidegg hotel, where their ascent was confirmed by observation of the flag left on the summit. The hotel owner then fired a cannon to celebrate the first ascent. According to Harrer's
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authorities even banned climbing it and threatened to fine any party that should attempt it again. However, the enthusiasm that animated the young talented climbers from Austria and Germany finally vanquished its reputation of unclimbability when a party of four climbers successfully reached the summit in 1938 by what is known as the "1938" or "Heckmair" route.
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inspired him to take up climbing. The film followed Simpson's eponymous 2003 book. Those playing the parts of the original climbing team were Swiss mountain guides Roger SchÀli (Toni Kurz), Simon Anthamatten (Andreas Hinterstoisser), Dres Abegglen (Willy Angerer) and Cyrille Berthod (Edi Rainer). The
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rope that bound him to his dead teammate below and climbed back onto the face. The guides could not pass an unclimbable overhang that separated them from Kurz. They gave him a rope long enough to reach them by tying two ropes together. While descending, Kurz could not get the knot to pass through his
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went searching for the missing men with his aircraft, eventually spotting one of them frozen to death in what became known as the "Death Bivouac". Sedlmeyer's body was found at the foot of the face the following year by his brothers Heinrich and Martin Meier, who were part of a group looking for the
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While the summit was reached without much difficulty in 1858 by a complex route on the west flank, the battle to climb the north face has captivated the interest of climbers and non-climbers alike. Before it was successfully climbed, most of the attempts on the face ended tragically, and the Bernese
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The name first appeared as 'mons Egere' in a document in 1252 and is a contentious topic among philologists and etymologists. One argues that since the document was a land deed, the name was that of the farmer who first settled the meadows below the face, one Agiger or Aiger, which was later shaded
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2015 (23 July): A team of British Para-Climbers reached the summit via the West Flank Route. The team included John Churcher, the world's first blind climber to summit the Eiger, who was sight-guided by the team leader, Mark McGowan. Colin Gourlay enabled the ascent of other team members, including
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Ten young climbers from Austria and Germany came to Grindelwald and camped at the foot of the mountain the following year. Before their attempts started, one of them was killed during a training climb, and the weather was so bad during that summer that, after waiting for a change and seeing none on
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In the morning, the three guides returned, traversing the face from a hole near the Eigerwand station and risking their lives under constant avalanches. Toni Kurz was still alive but almost helpless, with one hand and one arm wholly frozen. Kurz hauled himself off the cliff after cutting loose the
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on the climb) and Kasparek were joined on the face by Heckmair and Vörg, who had started their ascent a day later and had been helped by the fixed rope that the lead team had left across the Hinterstoisser Traverse. The two groups, led by the experienced Heckmair, decided to join their forces and
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Snow avalanches constantly threatened the expedition. They climbed as quickly as possible between the falls. On the third day, a storm broke, and the cold was intense. The four men were caught in an avalanche as they climbed "the Spider", the snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice-field on the
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hotel. From there, they started the ascent of the Eiger at 3:30&nbsp a.m. Barrington describes the route much as it is followed today, staying close to the edge of the north face much of the way. They reached the summit at about noon, planted a flag, remained for 10 minutes, and descended in
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In 1935, two young German climbers from Bavaria, Karl Mehringer and Max Sedlmeyer, arrived at Grindelwald to attempt the ascent of the north face. After waiting some time for the weather to improve, they set off, reaching the height of the Eigerwand station before stopping for their first
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upper face, but all possessed sufficient strength to resist being swept off the face. The members successfully reached the summit at four o'clock in the afternoon. They were so exhausted that they only had the strength to descend by the regular route through a raging blizzard.
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of the Jungfrau Railway and bivouacked for the night. They started the climb at about 6:00 a.m. and reached the summit of the Eiger at about 7:15 p.m., after an over 13 hours gruelling ascent. Shortly after, they descended the west flank. They finally reached
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The first mention of Eiger, appearing as "mons Egere", was found in a property sale document of 1252, but there is no clear indication of how exactly the peak gained its name. The three mountains of the ridge are commonly referred to as the Virgin (German:
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Some of the notable features on the north face are (from the bottom): First Pillar, Eigerwand Station, First Ice-field, Hinterstoisser Traverse, Swallow's Nest, Ice Hose, Second Ice-field, Death Bivouac, Ramp, Traverse of the Gods, Spider and Exit Cracks.
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In July 2006, a piece of the Eiger fell from the east face, amounting to approximately 700,000 cubic metres of rock. As it had been noticeably cleaving for several weeks and fell into an uninhabited area, no injuries or buildings were hit.
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Although the summit of the Eiger can be reached by experienced climbers only, a railway tunnel runs inside the mountain, and two internal stations provide easy access to viewing-windows carved into the rock face. They are both part of the
399:, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858. The north face, the "last problem" of the Alps, considered amongst the most challenging and dangerous ascents, was first climbed in 1938 by an Austrian-German expedition. The Eiger has been 1323:, 1962, by Jack Olson, is an account of the ill-fated 1957 attempted climb of the north face by an Italian four-person team and the dramatic rescue of the sole survivor mounted by an international all-volunteer group of rescuers. 516:(1,274 m (4,180 ft)). The Eiger has three faces: north (or more precisely NNW), east (or more precisely ESE), and west (or more precisely WSW). The northeastern ridge from the summit to the Ostegg (lit.: 1005:
Although the Mittellegi ridge had already been descended by climbers (since 1885) with ropes in the difficult sections, it remained unclimbed until 1921. On the 10th of September of that year, Japanese climber
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Since then, the north face has been climbed many times. Today, it is regarded as a formidable challenge, not only because of its technical difficulties, exceeding those of some of the 8,000 m peaks in the
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called the face "an obsession for the mentally deranged" and "the most imbecile variant since mountaineering first began." In the same year, however, the north face was finally climbed on 24 July by
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Al Taylor, who has multiple sclerosis, and the young autistic climber Jamie Owen from North Wales. The ascent was filmed by the adventure filmmakers Euan Ryan and Willis Morris of Finalcrux Films.
1454:(German edition, 1998; English edition, 2000), edited by Daniel Anker, is a comprehensive climbing history of the north face authored by 17 climbers, with numerous photographs and illustrations. 356:. While the northern side of the mountain rises more than 3,000 m (10,000 ft) above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces the large glaciers of the 1271:
1992 (18 July): Three BMG/UIAGM/IFMGA clients died in a fall down the West Flank: Willie Dunnachie, Douglas Gaines, and Phillip Davies. They had ascended the mountain via the Mittellegi Ridge.
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but also because of the increased rockfall and diminishing ice-fields. Climbers are increasingly electing to challenge the Eiger in winter when the crumbling face is strengthened by ice.
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roped together as a single group of four. Heckmair later wrote: "We, the sons of the older Reich, united with our companions from the Eastern Border to march together to victory."
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into Eiger. Another proposes that Eiger is based on Latin and/or Greek words meaning sharp, pinnacle, or peak. A third suggests that it derives from a German dialect phrase
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for the many tragedies involving climbing expeditions. Since 1935, at least 64 climbers have died attempting the north face, earning it the German nickname
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2006 (15 July): Approximately 700,000 cubic metres (20 million cubic feet) of rock from the east side collapses. No injuries or damage were reported.
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range with the western ridge of the Eiger. The Eiger does not properly form part of the main chain of the Bernese Alps, which borders the canton of
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instead. Porges, however, successfully made the second ascent of the Eiger in July 1861 with the guides Christian Michel, Hans, and Peter Baumann.
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is a World War II spy thriller where a group escaping from Nazi Germany is trapped and the only possible exit route is via the Nordwand.
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flows on the southwestern side of the Eiger, from the crest connecting it to the Mönch down to 2,400 m (7,900 ft), south of
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A portion of the upper face is called "The White Spider", as snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice field resemble the legs of a
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triple summit (4,049 m (13,284 ft)) down to about 1,600 m (5,200 ft) of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier system.
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1988: Original Route (ED2), north face, Eiger (3970m), Alps, Switzerland, first American solo (nine and a half hours) by
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victims of the 1936 climbing disaster. Mehringer's remains were found in 1962 by Swiss climbers below the "Flat Iron" (
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Although the Eiger's north face is almost ice-free, significant glaciers lie on the other sides of the mountain. The
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1871: First ascent by the southwest ridge, 14 July (Christian Almer, Christian Bohren, and Ulrich Almer guiding
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1932: First ascent of the northeast face ("Lauper route") by Hans Lauper, Alfred ZĂŒrcher, Alexander Graven and
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Since 1935, at least sixty-four climbers have died attempting the north face, earning it the German nickname,
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railway stations. The approach hike to the base of the face takes less than an hour from Eigergletscher.
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party. The party had initially consisted of two independent teams: Harrer (who did not have a pair of
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After World War II, the north face was climbed twice in 1947, first by a party of two French guides,
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by Charles MacHardy describes the main character's second attempted ascent of the Eiger north face.
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The climbers that attempted the north face could be easily watched through the telescopes from the
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guiding the Austrian alpinist Sigismund Porges. They did manage the first ascent of neighboring
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the way, several members of the party gave up. Of the four that remained, two were Bavarians,
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The massive composition of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau constitutes a symbolic sight of the
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at 4,158 m (13,642 ft), constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the
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features John Harlin III's climb up the north face in September 2005. Harlin's father,
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is an action/thriller novel by Rodney William Whitaker (writing under the pseudonym
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for "north wall" or "north face", is the north face of the Eiger (also known as the
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municipalities of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen. The Kleine Scheidegg (literally,
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The North Face of the Eiger is the biggest sheer face in Europe, over a mile high
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The Big Walls: From the North Face of the Eiger to the South Face of Dhaulagiri
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by Arthur Roth is a historical account of the first ascents of the North Face.
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extending for up to 22 kilometres (14 mi), the largest (beyond the Eiger
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1991: First ascent, Metanoia Route, North Face, solo, winter, without bolts,
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being a sharp spear used in warfare. - Chapter 2, The Redoubtable Beufoys
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to climb the Eiger north face. The film is about the two German climbers
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1924: First ski ascent and descent via the Eiger glacier by Englishman
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The first ascent was made by the western flank on August 11, 1858, by
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Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (2016). "The Redoubtable Beaufoys".
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and the Swiss Fritz Amacher, Walter Amstutz, and Willy Richardet.
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
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at its base, on the eponymous pass connecting the two valleys.
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describes the first successful ascent of the Eiger north face.
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Are you still here? A bagman's view of climbing the Eigerwand
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and Christian Jossi guiding C. W. Mead and G. F. Woodroffe.
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1864 (Jul 27): Fourth ascent, and first ascent by a woman,
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Obituary of Anderl Heckmair, The Independent, Feb. 3, 2005
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New and Old Explorations of the Eiger, Photos & Video
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film crew included very experienced mountaineers (e.g.,
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The White Spider: The History of the Eiger's North Face
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The White Spider: The History of the Eiger's North Face
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Politically, the Eiger (and its summit) belongs to the
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The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides
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The north face was first climbed on July 24, 1938, by
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At 3.30 a.m. they set off up the Eiger's West Flank
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North face (Eiger)
Eiger (disambiguation)

Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Mönch
Isolation
Listing
Great north faces of the Alps
Alpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates
46°34â€Č39″N 8°0â€Č19″E / 46.57750°N 8.00528°E / 46.57750; 8.00528
Eiger is located in Switzerland
Canton of Bern
Switzerland
Parent range
Bernese Alps
Topo map
Swisstopo
Mountain type
Limestone
First ascent
Easiest route
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Bernese Alps
Grindelwald
Lauterbrunnen
Bernese Oberland

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