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 ...

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Roger Schäli climbing the 8a+ crux pitch of Odyssee on the North Face of the Eiger, forged together with Robert Jasper and Simon Gietl Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, ...

Since 1935, 65 men have died on the Eiger, a mountain whose north face is one of the more challenging climbs in the Alps. It isn't the weather, the altitude -- at about 13,000 feet it is less than ...