The most ominous feature of the Eiger - the 5,900-foot North Face known as Mordwand or the ‘Death Wall’, has attracted and deterred mountaineers from around the world for centuries.

The video of the march 2013 attempt by Andy Kirkpatrick, Ross Kain and Neil Chelton to repeat the Russian route up the North Face of the Eiger. Talk about baptism of fire: in March 2013 Andy ...

The Eiger, situated in the Bernese Oberland in central Switzerland, is one of the most famous mountains in the Swiss Alps. The north face of the iconic 3,967-metre peak and its other challenging ...

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 ...