Jonathan (Clint Eastwood) risks his life climbing a mountain. Get your Action Pick! Watch The Eiger Sanction Here: <a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Sasha DiGiulian was told that “little girls don’t belong on the Eiger.” On Aug. 29, she proved her critics wrong when she summited the north face of the Eiger after a difficult three-day climb. Not ...

No other mountain in the Alps elicits emotions like the Eiger. Foreboding and dominant above the Alpine village of Grindelwald, it has been the inspiration for Hollywood films, books and countless ...

While Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” dealt exhaustively with the 1936 Olympics competition in Berlin, Philipp Stölzl’s “North Face” impressively dramatizes a lesser-known event that led up to the Games.