From 19-24 August Swiss alpinists Silvan Schüpbach and Peter von Känel made the first ascent of Renaissance, a big new climb on the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. The pair climbed the 1220m ...

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 ...

A few days ago Swiss alpinist Roger Schaeli reached an important milestone in his climbing career: 50 complete ascents of the Eiger. Nicknamed "Mister Eiger" for good reason evidently, the mountain ...

UELI STECK took a deep breath and stared up at the north face of the Eiger, the infamous 5,900-foot wall of fractured limestone and ice, high in the Bernese Alps, that has killed at least 64 people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anderl Heckmair, a German mountain guide who led the first team to conquer the notorious north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, has died, his publisher said Wednesday. He was 98. Heckmair died ...

Years before she died on the descent from K2, famed mountaineer Alison Hargreaves climbed the soaring, glacier-studded Eiger with her son Tom in her womb. That would arguably be his first climb, made ...