feature of the Eiger is its nearly 1,800-metre-high (5,900 ft) north face of rock and ice, named Eiger-Nordwand, Eigerwand or just Nordwand, which is the...
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describes 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...
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New Age Journal. It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the Eiger Nordwand in the Swiss Alps, Denali in Alaska or K2 in the Karakoram, to the well-known...
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Jon Krakauer (section Eiger Dreams)
rock climbing. It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the Eiger Nordwand in the Swiss Alps, Denali in Alaska or K2 in the Karakoram, to the well-known...
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Thomasma, Melissa (August 13, 2008). ""FreeBASE": Dean Potter on the Eiger Nordwand". Alpinist. ISSN 1540-725X. Retrieved August 30, 2017. Bisharat, Andrew...
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Anderl Heckmair (section Eiger first ascent)
Lebenskünstler; das Porträt des großen Bergführers und Erstbegehers der Eiger-Nordwand. (Vorwort von Martin Schließler). Semann Verlag, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-00-008873-3...
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Thomasma, Melissa (13 August 2008). "FreeBASE: Dean Potter on the Eiger Nordwand". Alpinist. ISSN 1540-725X. Retrieved 30 December 2022. Bisharat, Andrew...
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(3 September 2001). "Eiger's grim reputation". BBC News. Retrieved 28 October 2019. Cooper, Kate (May 2008). "The Eiger Nordwand Revealed: Rainer Rettner...
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Toni Kurz (category Deaths on the Eiger)
2008). "The Eiger Nordwand Revealed: Rainer Rettner Interview". UK Climbing. Retrieved 8 January 2013. Gilbert, Dave (3 September 2001). "Eiger's grim reputation"...
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Andreas Hinterstoisser (category Deaths on the Eiger)
the Eiger. Mountain Zone. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Cooper, Kate (May 2008). "The Eiger Nordwand Revealed:...
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High-Speed Ring and Eiger/Eiger Nordwand. In the absence of suitable roads in the real-life location around Kleine Scheidegg and the Eiger, the game developers...
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North Face (film) (redirect from Nordwand (film))
North Face (German: Nordwand) is a 2008 German historical fiction film directed by Philipp Stölzl and starring Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek...
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technology. The hiking track in the area is the basis for the fictional Eiger Nordwand tracks in the racing video games Gran Turismo HD Concept, Gran Turismo...
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faces of the Alps was climbed with the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand (north face of the Eiger). Important geological concepts were established as naturalists...
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Bezwinger der Eiger-Nordwand erzählt von seinen Bergfahrten, Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg 1939 Vom Peilstein zur Eiger-Nordwand. Erlebnisse eines...
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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 Nordwand", Alpinist, August 13, 2008, accessed August 29, 2008, http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web08x/newswire-potter-eiger-freebase. "Eiger Speed...
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Klettermagazin. Retrieved 26 July 2022. "Ueli Steck rennt wieder die Eiger-Nordwand hoch | Kompass" (in German). Retrieved 26 July 2022. "Nicolas Hojac...
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Willy Angerer (category Deaths on the Eiger)
Extreme Eiger: The Race to Climb the Direct Route up the North Face of the Eiger. London: Simon & Schuster. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-1-47113-460-9. "Nordwand, Mordwand"...
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the north face of the Eiger. In fact, it was done by Bonington and Ian Clough in 1962, but he made the first ascent of the Nordwand by the direttissima...
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Eduard Rainer (category Eiger)
at ANNO)Template:ANNO/Maintenance/sbw Die tiefere Tragödie von der Eiger Nordwand. Einer der Toten ein Salzburger Emigrant. In: Salzburger Chronik, 24...
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the Lotus Elise 111R. The game features only a single track, The Eiger Nordwand (Eiger north face) which is a newly created mountain pass track based on...
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Thomasma, Melissa (13 August 2008). "FreeBASE: Dean Potter on the Eiger Nordwand". Alpinist. ISSN 1540-725X. Retrieved 30 December 2022. Bisharat, Andrew...
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publications include: Nightfall, a short story about a climb of the Eiger Nordwand at the outbreak of World War III, in the short-lived The Irish Climber...
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non-commissioned officer. Steurer was born in Oberstdorf. Having climbed the Eiger Nordwand at the age of seventeen, he is one of the youngest mountaineers to have...
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media; headlines included "Skandal um die 'Eiger-Königin'" ("Scandal involving the 'Eiger Queen'") and "Nordwand-Bezwingerin Daisy Voog wegen Unterschlagung...
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Jugendroman Mücke im März Max Scharnigg für den Roman Die Besteigung der Eiger-Nordwand unter einer Treppe Fine arts Duo Matthias Böhler / Christian Orendt...
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of the Eiger's Nordwand. He made first ascents of Annapurna II (1960) and Nuptse (1962). His role as climbing photo-journalist on the "Eiger direttissima"...
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examples are Kangchenjunga, K2, Annapurna, Nanga Parbat, and the Eiger (especially the nordwand). Some factors that affect total mountain lethality include...
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peak, 2,550 m (8,370 ft), Monte Cristallo, 1908—solo) Oberbachernturm-Nordwand/Torre Fiscalina (Sexten Dolomites, 27 July 1909—with L. Rizzi, Guido Mayer...
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