Eiger Routelines Poster Jeremy Collins

Eiger Routelines Poster Jeremy CollinsUnlike the quiet southern side, the Nordwand or the Eigerwand belongs as much to the watching public as it does to the individual climber. For anyone who sets foot on the mountain, it is real. The rock is hard and cold to touch, Martin Gutmann writes in The Theater of History, Mountain Profile The Eiger Part II (1939 2012). Since the first ascent in 1938, hundreds of climbers have etched, then repeated, new paths up this looming alpine face. In the

we're getting closer

After triggering an avalanche in La Grave

Riders on the Storm

The Sharp End Climbing fast and slow

The next day

Sisters of the Steeps

but before you do

's backcountry heartland with Sweetgrass Productions and Johan Olofsson lands a lucky crew a season's worth of powder in seven days

it was more than just a climb

Several ascents of Slawston Bridge

Peter Croft Things Invisible to See It's easy to get nostalgic about the early days of Himalayan exploration

Eight pages of powder