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    The Eiger (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪ̯ɡɐ] ) is a 3,967-metre (13,015 ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the...
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    The Eiger Express is a gondola cableway linking Grindelwald with the Eigergletscher that opened in December, 2020. The Eiger Express was constructed as...
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  • The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian, the...
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  • Look up Eiger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Eiger is a mountain in Switzerland. Eiger may also refer to: Eiger (Greenland), a mountain in the...
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  • The Eiger Sanction may refer to The Eiger Sanction (novel), a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker The Eiger Sanction...
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  • Eiger Fotballklubb, formerly Eiger Idrettslag, is a Norwegian association football club from Eigerøy, Rogaland. It was founded on 19 March 1961. The men's...
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    Rabbi Akiva Eiger (/eɪɡər/, also spelled Eger; Hebrew: עקיבא איגר, Yiddish: עקיבא אייגער), or Akiva Güns (1761 – 1837) was an outstanding Talmudic scholar...
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    The Eiger Glacier (German: Eigergletscher) is a glacier situated on the north-west side of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. The glacier is...
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  • Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing...
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  • four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew...
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  • The Suzuki Eiger 400 is an all-terrain vehicle (4-wheel motorcycle) from Suzuki. It has a 376 cc, single overhead cam, four-stroke, single cylinder, air/oil-cooled...
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    the first successful ascent of the infamous north face (Nordwand) of the Eiger, a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps, with sections devoted...
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  • The recorded history of climbing of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland starts in the 1800s. It is split between the pre-north face era, when the main summits...
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    overlooked by a section of the Bernese Alps from the Wetterhorn to the Eiger, which creates a natural barrier. Together with the adjacent valley of Lauterbrunnen...
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    1936, five climbers died while attempting to ascend the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. After a deadly and unsuccessful German attempt...
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    pass at an elevation of 2,061 m (6,762 ft), situated below and between the Eiger and Lauberhorn peaks in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The...
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  • Fundamentals for Legacy PCs was originally announced with the code name "Eiger" on 12 May 2005. ("Mönch" was announced as a potential follow-up project...
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    MPMan (redirect from Eiger Labs MPMan F10)
    mid-1998. Around the same time, Eiger Labs, Inc. imported and rebranded the player in two models, the Eiger MPMan F10, and Eiger MPMan F20. Owners could upgrade...
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    the North Face of the Eiger and the Bonatti Pillar in the Mont Blanc massif. In June 2004, he and Stephan Siegrist climbed the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau...
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    primarily through his speed record on the ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 2011. He climbed the wall solo in 2 hours and 28 minutes, 20 minutes...
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  • The Eiger Sanction is a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker. The story is about a classical art professor and collector...
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    climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and in Into the Wild.: 135–153  In 1992, he made his way to Cerro...
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  • Pythom (section Eiger Rocket)
    famous mountain in Switzerland, Eiger is Pythom's first orbital launch vehicle that is currently under development. Eiger is designed to carry 150 kg to...
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  • fundamental law The Eiger Sanction (novel), a 1972 thriller novel by Trevanian, the pen name of Rodney William Whitaker The Eiger Sanction (film), the...
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    runs essentially within the Jungfrau Tunnel, built into the neighbouring Eiger and Mönch, to protect the line from snow and extreme weather. The Jungfrau...
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    height. The "Trilogy" is the three hardest of these north faces, being the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses, and the Matterhorn. The six great north faces are...
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    containing 72 waterfalls, is well known for the Jungfrau (4,158 m or 13,642 ft) Eiger and Mönch peaks, and its many picturesque valleys. In the southeast the...
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    canton of Valais, halfway between Interlaken and Fiesch. Together with the Eiger and Mönch, the Jungfrau forms a massive wall of mountains overlooking the...
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    Rebecca Shapiro Martin Eiger 2011 Molly Olonoff Martin Eiger Adam Marcus 2012 Martin Eiger Adam Marcus Molly Olonoff 2013 Martin Eiger Matthew Zander Daniel...
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  • Andreas Hinterstoisser (category Deaths on the Eiger)
    German mountain climber active in the 1930s. He was killed in the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster during an attempted summit via that route with...
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