Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Saturday morning, a major rockfall occurred on the North Face of the Eiger, covering the Swiss valley in a cloud of dust. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 8th, Jana Möhrer and I climbed the Heckmair route on the north face of the Eiger, in a day. Two weeks earlier I had been looking for a partner to go back to the Heckmair, which I had tried a ...

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 ...

A massive rockfall blasted down the treacherous North Face of the Eiger on September 7th. The thunderous explosion distributed mountainous dust throughout the Swiss valley below the iconic peak. The ...

Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) finds himself in mortal danger on the treacherous north face of the Eiger, forced to rely ...

Benjamin Vedrines has wrapped up another non-stop alpine endeavor. Vedrines climbed the legendary North Faces of the Grandes Jorasses-Matterhorn-Eiger trilogy in a week, without motorized travel ...

Secretly, I have always believed that lurking within me, waiting for an opportunity to manifest itself, is the ability to socialize with important people without making an ass of myself. My chosen ...