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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 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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    Akiva Eiger (/eɪɡər/, also spelled Eger; Hebrew: עקיבא איגר, Yiddish: עקיבא אייגער), or Akiva Güns (8 November 1761 – 12 October 1837) was a Talmudic...
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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 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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • recorded history of climbing of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland starts in the 1800s. It is split between the Eiger 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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    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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    of four 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    accident in 1962. In 1965, shortly before his ascent of Harlin Direct on the Eiger, Haston was sentenced to 60 days in prison having run down and killed 18-year-old...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Leo Houlding. 2008 Deep Blue Sea (5.12+), Eiger, Bernese Alps, Switzerland. First FreeBASE ascent of the Eiger. 2010 The Nose, El Capitan, Yosemite. Fastest...
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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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  • The Loo Sanction is a 1973 sequel novel to The Eiger Sanction written by Trevanian. In London, England, Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing...
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    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Earthquake, The Eiger Sanction, and The Delta Force. Kennedy was the only actor to appear in all...
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  • Kasparek, and Anderl Heckmair, he successfully climbed the north face of the Eiger in 1938, which was regarded as unclimbable at the time. He also made the...
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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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