The North Face of The Eiger

My memory of the Eigers face has often given me the strength, the patience and the confidence to cope with apparently hopeless and dangerous situations, and helped me to believe in life at times when all the circumstances seemed most hostile to life itself. Said Heinrich Harrer.

The first succesful ascent was achieved by a quartet of climbers from Austria and Germany. Among them was Heinrich Harrer north face mens, the unparallelled Austrian skier, climber and explorer who is known by most from his book Seven Years in Tibet. Despite of that first victory and many subsequent ones, the shadow of death was never far from the mighty face. The first pair to seriously attempt the ascent froze north face womens to death at 3000 metres altitude. A year later in 1936 a party of four perished while trying to descend down the face after bad weather conditions marred their journey upward.

Three of them fell to their deaths, while the fourth tragically and dramatically died mere inches away from his rescuers. A knot in the rescuing rope did not fit through his snap-link and his last frantic efforts proved fatal: he died of sheer exhaustion. Countless tragedies followed north face sale, yet the Eigers fearsome reputation kept calling on the bravest of souls to pit their skills against it.

Not only its frightening steepness and its tremendously difficult pitches, but also and especially the constant bombardment by stone and rock breaking off from buy north face and its unpredictable avalanches higher up near the summit have made the Eiger into the supreme test for the worlds most qualified climbers.