The Eiger is a 3,970-metre (13,020ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at 4,158m (13,642ft), constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps. While the northern side of the mountain rises more than 3,000 m (10,000ft) above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces the large glaciers of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, the most glaciated region in the Alps. The most notable feature of the Eiger is its 1,800-metre-high (5,900ft) north face of rock and ice, named Eigerwand or Nordwand, which is the biggest north face in the Alps. This huge face towers the resort of Kleine Scheidegg at its base, on the homonymous pass connecting the two valleys.
The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858. The north face, considered amongst the most challenging and dangerous ascents, was first climbed in 1938 by an Austrian-German expedition. The Eiger has been highly-publicized for the many tragedies involving climbing expeditions. Since 1935, at least sixty-four climbers have died attempting the north face, earning it the German nickname Mordwand, literally "murder(ous) wall"—a pun on its correct title of Nordwand (North Wall).
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs ("WinFLP") is a thin clientoperating system from Microsoft. WinFLP is based on Windows XP Embedded and is optimized for older, less powerful hardware. It was released on July 8, 2006 and is not marketed as a full-fledged general purpose operating system, although it is functionally able to perform most of the tasks generally associated with one. It includes only certain functionality for local workloads such as security, management, document viewing related tasks and the .NET Framework. It is designed to work as a client–server solution with RDP clients or other third party clients such as CitrixICA.
History
WinFLP was originally announced with the code name "Eiger" on 12 May 2005. ("Mönch" was announced as a potential follow-up project at about the same time.) The name "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs" appeared in a press release in September 2005, when it was introduced as "formerly code-named “Eiger”" and described as "an exclusive benefit to SA [Microsoft Software Assurance] customers".
BBC explores a history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous North Face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome shadow.
---Sam Wollaston Review---
Mountains don't get much better than the Eiger with its legendary north face, a near vertical mile of rock and ice, haunted by savage winds and the ghosts of dead climbers. "Every ledge of the Eiger is covered in the sediment of history," says the mountaineer Stephen Venables, who is unusually forthcoming for a climber and has a lovely way with words. He was good on the the BBC's live rock climb in the Outer Hebrides last weekend (five hours of nail-biting drama).
More than 60 people hav...
published: 06 Aug 2021
Ueli Steck New Speed Record Eiger 2015
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advantage of good weather and climbing conditions and pushed for the summit of the classic Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) in a mere 2 hours 22 minutes.
Filmed by Samcam Film Switzerland with a Drone. Samcam Crew is specialised in aerial mountain filming including Shotover, Cineflex v14, Cineflex elite and Cineflex ultra. Motocrane Ultra
Filmed in HD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K. LiveU.
crew. Samcam film.
alpinist: ueli steck
film by: samuel gyger, samcam film
cameramen: gery gafner / samuel gyger
drone pilot: stefan hunziker
edit: maximilian eckmann
sound mix: lukas erni
music: Zachary David - Coming Home
mountain safety: hansruedi gertsch
...
published: 19 Nov 2015
Aufstieg zum Eiger – Einen Fehltritt vom Absturz entfernt | rec. | Reportage | SRF Dok
Der Eiger im Berner Oberland gehört zu den berühmtesten Bergen der Alpen. Die Eigernordwand, aber auch alle anderen Zustiegsrouten ziehen Bergsteiger:innen aus der ganzen Welt an. Der Reporter Matthias Lüscher stellt sich der Herausforderung und steigt über den schmalen Grat auf den Eiger.
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Die heutige Normalroute führt über den Mittellegigrat. Lüscher ist mit der Bergführerin Laura Bomio unterwegs, der ersten weiblichen Bergführerin aus Grindelwald. Er ist ihr 13. Gast auf dieser Route. Die Bergtour auf den Eiger (3967m ü. M.) ist nichts für schwache Nerven. Links und rechts geht’s mehrere 1000 Meter in die Tiefe, bei Lüsc...
published: 19 Oct 2021
Eiger 3970m solo/ w 1 dzień/ 23.08.2019 (ENG SUB) [1080/60]
Relacja ze wspaniałej alpejskiej wyprawy na górę legendę - Eiger!
By dotrzeć do Aspen koło Grindelwaldu przejechałem sam 1200 km z Polski jednym ciągiem. Po przyjeździe rozbiłem namiot i zrobiłem mały rekonesans po pięknej okolicy. Położyłem się spać już o 18 by w pełni sił wyruszyć w nocy na przygodę.
O godzinie 03:30 wyszedłem z namiotu (1111m), po czym przez Brandegg, Alpiglen, szlak Eiger Trail oraz krótką ferratę o 6:50 osiągnąłem wierzchołek w zachodniej grani - Rotstock (2663m). Na Eigerze (3970m) stanąłem o 11:47. Po niespełna godzinie odpoczynku rozpocząłem zejście, by o 17:00 znaleźć się z powrotem na Rotstock Col (przełęcz pod wierzchołkiem o tej samej nazwie). Następnie zszedłem do stacji Eigergletscher, skąd szlakiem Eiger Trail z powrotem do Aspen i namiotu, który rozsunąłe...
published: 16 Sep 2019
L'eco del silenzio. La maledetta parete nord dell'Eiger. Completo in italiano.
BBC explores a history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous North Face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's m...
BBC explores a history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous North Face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome shadow.
---Sam Wollaston Review---
Mountains don't get much better than the Eiger with its legendary north face, a near vertical mile of rock and ice, haunted by savage winds and the ghosts of dead climbers. "Every ledge of the Eiger is covered in the sediment of history," says the mountaineer Stephen Venables, who is unusually forthcoming for a climber and has a lovely way with words. He was good on the the BBC's live rock climb in the Outer Hebrides last weekend (five hours of nail-biting drama).
More than 60 people have died attempting the Eiger's north face. Most agonising was the death of the German Toni Kurz in 1936. Kurz had already seen his three companions perish around him: he'd had to cut them free to try to get himself down alive. When he was within a few feet of a rescue party, all he had to do was detach himself from the rope and he would have fallen to them and been saved. But after a night dangling alone on the rock, he was too exhausted and frostbitten to summon up the energy. "I can't go on," he gasped, and died.
His would-be rescuers had emerged on to the wall from a door called the Stollenloch, which connects to the railway inside the mountain. That door is an extraordinary thing: it turns the north face of the Eiger into an advent calendar – albeit a one-hit one. To the climbers who have used the Stollenloch as an escape route, it must have felt like Christmas Day. There can be few doors – the one on the wardrobe on the way to Narnia perhaps, and possibly the Pearly Gates – that are so different on either side. On one side is one of the most extreme and terrifying places on earth, once described by the aristocratic British editor of the Alpine Journal as "an obsession for the mentally deranged" and "the most imbecile variant since mountaineering first began"; and on the other side are trainloads of tourists, on their way to see the view.
Today, mountain guides Kenton Cool and Neil Brodie are going the other way, from inside to out, just to have a look. "Bugger me, this is awesome," says one of them. See what I mean about not all climbers having Stephen Venables's way with words? The only pity about this absorbing chronicle of one of the world's great climbing challenges is that the conditions aren't right for Cool and Brodie. It would have been nice to go up with them, battling through the spindrift and the sediment of history, past the Stollenloch, the Hinterstoisser Traverse, the Flatiron, Death Bivouac, the Traverse of the Gods, the White Spider, and on to the summit. But then perhaps, in these days, when a Swiss wunderkind called Ueli Steck can scale the north face on his own in two hours and 47 minutes, it's quite reassuring that the mountain can still sometimes win.
#Eiger #ClimbingTheEiger
BBC explores a history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous North Face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome shadow.
---Sam Wollaston Review---
Mountains don't get much better than the Eiger with its legendary north face, a near vertical mile of rock and ice, haunted by savage winds and the ghosts of dead climbers. "Every ledge of the Eiger is covered in the sediment of history," says the mountaineer Stephen Venables, who is unusually forthcoming for a climber and has a lovely way with words. He was good on the the BBC's live rock climb in the Outer Hebrides last weekend (five hours of nail-biting drama).
More than 60 people have died attempting the Eiger's north face. Most agonising was the death of the German Toni Kurz in 1936. Kurz had already seen his three companions perish around him: he'd had to cut them free to try to get himself down alive. When he was within a few feet of a rescue party, all he had to do was detach himself from the rope and he would have fallen to them and been saved. But after a night dangling alone on the rock, he was too exhausted and frostbitten to summon up the energy. "I can't go on," he gasped, and died.
His would-be rescuers had emerged on to the wall from a door called the Stollenloch, which connects to the railway inside the mountain. That door is an extraordinary thing: it turns the north face of the Eiger into an advent calendar – albeit a one-hit one. To the climbers who have used the Stollenloch as an escape route, it must have felt like Christmas Day. There can be few doors – the one on the wardrobe on the way to Narnia perhaps, and possibly the Pearly Gates – that are so different on either side. On one side is one of the most extreme and terrifying places on earth, once described by the aristocratic British editor of the Alpine Journal as "an obsession for the mentally deranged" and "the most imbecile variant since mountaineering first began"; and on the other side are trainloads of tourists, on their way to see the view.
Today, mountain guides Kenton Cool and Neil Brodie are going the other way, from inside to out, just to have a look. "Bugger me, this is awesome," says one of them. See what I mean about not all climbers having Stephen Venables's way with words? The only pity about this absorbing chronicle of one of the world's great climbing challenges is that the conditions aren't right for Cool and Brodie. It would have been nice to go up with them, battling through the spindrift and the sediment of history, past the Stollenloch, the Hinterstoisser Traverse, the Flatiron, Death Bivouac, the Traverse of the Gods, the White Spider, and on to the summit. But then perhaps, in these days, when a Swiss wunderkind called Ueli Steck can scale the north face on his own in two hours and 47 minutes, it's quite reassuring that the mountain can still sometimes win.
#Eiger #ClimbingTheEiger
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advant...
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advantage of good weather and climbing conditions and pushed for the summit of the classic Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) in a mere 2 hours 22 minutes.
Filmed by Samcam Film Switzerland with a Drone. Samcam Crew is specialised in aerial mountain filming including Shotover, Cineflex v14, Cineflex elite and Cineflex ultra. Motocrane Ultra
Filmed in HD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K. LiveU.
crew. Samcam film.
alpinist: ueli steck
film by: samuel gyger, samcam film
cameramen: gery gafner / samuel gyger
drone pilot: stefan hunziker
edit: maximilian eckmann
sound mix: lukas erni
music: Zachary David - Coming Home
mountain safety: hansruedi gertsch
communication: bruno fahrni, rebekka gyger, sven allenbach
thanks to: jungfrau railways & eiger vision
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advantage of good weather and climbing conditions and pushed for the summit of the classic Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) in a mere 2 hours 22 minutes.
Filmed by Samcam Film Switzerland with a Drone. Samcam Crew is specialised in aerial mountain filming including Shotover, Cineflex v14, Cineflex elite and Cineflex ultra. Motocrane Ultra
Filmed in HD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K. LiveU.
crew. Samcam film.
alpinist: ueli steck
film by: samuel gyger, samcam film
cameramen: gery gafner / samuel gyger
drone pilot: stefan hunziker
edit: maximilian eckmann
sound mix: lukas erni
music: Zachary David - Coming Home
mountain safety: hansruedi gertsch
communication: bruno fahrni, rebekka gyger, sven allenbach
thanks to: jungfrau railways & eiger vision
Der Eiger im Berner Oberland gehört zu den berühmtesten Bergen der Alpen. Die Eigernordwand, aber auch alle anderen Zustiegsrouten ziehen Bergsteiger:innen aus ...
Relacja ze wspaniałej alpejskiej wyprawy na górę legendę - Eiger!
By dotrzeć do Aspen koło Grindelwaldu przejechałem sam 1200 km z Polski jednym ciągiem. Po pr...
Relacja ze wspaniałej alpejskiej wyprawy na górę legendę - Eiger!
By dotrzeć do Aspen koło Grindelwaldu przejechałem sam 1200 km z Polski jednym ciągiem. Po przyjeździe rozbiłem namiot i zrobiłem mały rekonesans po pięknej okolicy. Położyłem się spać już o 18 by w pełni sił wyruszyć w nocy na przygodę.
O godzinie 03:30 wyszedłem z namiotu (1111m), po czym przez Brandegg, Alpiglen, szlak Eiger Trail oraz krótką ferratę o 6:50 osiągnąłem wierzchołek w zachodniej grani - Rotstock (2663m). Na Eigerze (3970m) stanąłem o 11:47. Po niespełna godzinie odpoczynku rozpocząłem zejście, by o 17:00 znaleźć się z powrotem na Rotstock Col (przełęcz pod wierzchołkiem o tej samej nazwie). Następnie zszedłem do stacji Eigergletscher, skąd szlakiem Eiger Trail z powrotem do Aspen i namiotu, który rozsunąłem o 20:40, a zwycięskie piwo już na mnie czekało :)
Nad kondycją do takich wyczynów pracowałem od dłuższego czasu. Opłaciło się bez dwóch zdań!
Moją drogą wejściową/ zejściową była Zachodnia Flanka, czyli najłatwiejszy wariant prowadzący na szczyt, który służy przeważnie do schodzenia. Trudności wspinaczkowe nie są zbyt duże, choć to też zależy jakie warianty się obiera. Prawdziwym wyzwaniem jest natomiast charakter skały. Sypki wapień osuwa się samoistnie powodując lawiny, zjeżdżanie ze stopni i zostawanie chwytów w rękach. Droga w wielu miejscach nie jest ewidentna i zdarzało mi się ją gubić. Specyfika techniczna terenu pozwala jednak na stosowanie mnogich wariantów mniej lub bardziej niebezpiecznego dojścia z punktu A do B.
Region Jungfrau jest niesamowicie malowniczym miejscem, a samo przebywanie w dolinie napawa zachwytem. Gdyby tylko Szwajcaria nie była taka droga i tak daleka..
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ENG
Tłumaczenie/ Translation: Michał Świderski
The report from the wonderful alpine expedition to the top of the legendary Eiger!
I drove alone 1200 km from Poland to Aspen near Grindelwald in one go. Upon arrival I put up my tent and did a little recon of the beautiful area. I went to sleep at 6:00 pm, as I wanted to set out early at full strength.
At 03:30 am I left the tent (1111 m) and went through Brandegg, Alpiglen and Eiger Trail. At 06:50 am, after climbing a short ferrata, I reached Rotstock (2663 m) - the peak on the west ridge. At 11:47 am I reached the summit of Eiger (3970 m). After less than an hour of rest I started the descent, and at 05:00 pm I got back to Rotstock col (the pass under Rotstock). Then I descended to Eigergletscher station, and used Eiger Trail to go back to Aspen. I entered my tent at 8:40 pm - the victory beer was already waiting for me :)
I've been working on my physical condition for a long time. It paid off, no question about it!
I went by the West Flank both ways. It’s the easiest way to the summit, usually used for descending. Climbing is not a big deal there, although it depends on the options you’re choosing. The real challenge is the nature of the rock - a free-flowing limestone, which crumbles by itself, which may result in: falling rocks, plummeting or a piece of rock in your hand just when you grabbed it. Also, the route is tricky on some parts, and I managed to get lost few times. However, the characteristics of the area allow to use different options when going from A to B, in more or less dangerous way.
Jungfrau is an incredibly picturesque region, staying in the valley is a tremendous experience. If only Switzerland wasn't so far away and so expensive...
Relacja ze wspaniałej alpejskiej wyprawy na górę legendę - Eiger!
By dotrzeć do Aspen koło Grindelwaldu przejechałem sam 1200 km z Polski jednym ciągiem. Po przyjeździe rozbiłem namiot i zrobiłem mały rekonesans po pięknej okolicy. Położyłem się spać już o 18 by w pełni sił wyruszyć w nocy na przygodę.
O godzinie 03:30 wyszedłem z namiotu (1111m), po czym przez Brandegg, Alpiglen, szlak Eiger Trail oraz krótką ferratę o 6:50 osiągnąłem wierzchołek w zachodniej grani - Rotstock (2663m). Na Eigerze (3970m) stanąłem o 11:47. Po niespełna godzinie odpoczynku rozpocząłem zejście, by o 17:00 znaleźć się z powrotem na Rotstock Col (przełęcz pod wierzchołkiem o tej samej nazwie). Następnie zszedłem do stacji Eigergletscher, skąd szlakiem Eiger Trail z powrotem do Aspen i namiotu, który rozsunąłem o 20:40, a zwycięskie piwo już na mnie czekało :)
Nad kondycją do takich wyczynów pracowałem od dłuższego czasu. Opłaciło się bez dwóch zdań!
Moją drogą wejściową/ zejściową była Zachodnia Flanka, czyli najłatwiejszy wariant prowadzący na szczyt, który służy przeważnie do schodzenia. Trudności wspinaczkowe nie są zbyt duże, choć to też zależy jakie warianty się obiera. Prawdziwym wyzwaniem jest natomiast charakter skały. Sypki wapień osuwa się samoistnie powodując lawiny, zjeżdżanie ze stopni i zostawanie chwytów w rękach. Droga w wielu miejscach nie jest ewidentna i zdarzało mi się ją gubić. Specyfika techniczna terenu pozwala jednak na stosowanie mnogich wariantów mniej lub bardziej niebezpiecznego dojścia z punktu A do B.
Region Jungfrau jest niesamowicie malowniczym miejscem, a samo przebywanie w dolinie napawa zachwytem. Gdyby tylko Szwajcaria nie była taka droga i tak daleka..
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ENG
Tłumaczenie/ Translation: Michał Świderski
The report from the wonderful alpine expedition to the top of the legendary Eiger!
I drove alone 1200 km from Poland to Aspen near Grindelwald in one go. Upon arrival I put up my tent and did a little recon of the beautiful area. I went to sleep at 6:00 pm, as I wanted to set out early at full strength.
At 03:30 am I left the tent (1111 m) and went through Brandegg, Alpiglen and Eiger Trail. At 06:50 am, after climbing a short ferrata, I reached Rotstock (2663 m) - the peak on the west ridge. At 11:47 am I reached the summit of Eiger (3970 m). After less than an hour of rest I started the descent, and at 05:00 pm I got back to Rotstock col (the pass under Rotstock). Then I descended to Eigergletscher station, and used Eiger Trail to go back to Aspen. I entered my tent at 8:40 pm - the victory beer was already waiting for me :)
I've been working on my physical condition for a long time. It paid off, no question about it!
I went by the West Flank both ways. It’s the easiest way to the summit, usually used for descending. Climbing is not a big deal there, although it depends on the options you’re choosing. The real challenge is the nature of the rock - a free-flowing limestone, which crumbles by itself, which may result in: falling rocks, plummeting or a piece of rock in your hand just when you grabbed it. Also, the route is tricky on some parts, and I managed to get lost few times. However, the characteristics of the area allow to use different options when going from A to B, in more or less dangerous way.
Jungfrau is an incredibly picturesque region, staying in the valley is a tremendous experience. If only Switzerland wasn't so far away and so expensive...
BBC explores a history of one of the world's most challenging mountains, the Eiger, and its infamous North Face. The film gets to the heart of one of Europe's most notorious peaks, exploring its character and its impact on the people who climb it and live in its awesome shadow.
---Sam Wollaston Review---
Mountains don't get much better than the Eiger with its legendary north face, a near vertical mile of rock and ice, haunted by savage winds and the ghosts of dead climbers. "Every ledge of the Eiger is covered in the sediment of history," says the mountaineer Stephen Venables, who is unusually forthcoming for a climber and has a lovely way with words. He was good on the the BBC's live rock climb in the Outer Hebrides last weekend (five hours of nail-biting drama).
More than 60 people have died attempting the Eiger's north face. Most agonising was the death of the German Toni Kurz in 1936. Kurz had already seen his three companions perish around him: he'd had to cut them free to try to get himself down alive. When he was within a few feet of a rescue party, all he had to do was detach himself from the rope and he would have fallen to them and been saved. But after a night dangling alone on the rock, he was too exhausted and frostbitten to summon up the energy. "I can't go on," he gasped, and died.
His would-be rescuers had emerged on to the wall from a door called the Stollenloch, which connects to the railway inside the mountain. That door is an extraordinary thing: it turns the north face of the Eiger into an advent calendar – albeit a one-hit one. To the climbers who have used the Stollenloch as an escape route, it must have felt like Christmas Day. There can be few doors – the one on the wardrobe on the way to Narnia perhaps, and possibly the Pearly Gates – that are so different on either side. On one side is one of the most extreme and terrifying places on earth, once described by the aristocratic British editor of the Alpine Journal as "an obsession for the mentally deranged" and "the most imbecile variant since mountaineering first began"; and on the other side are trainloads of tourists, on their way to see the view.
Today, mountain guides Kenton Cool and Neil Brodie are going the other way, from inside to out, just to have a look. "Bugger me, this is awesome," says one of them. See what I mean about not all climbers having Stephen Venables's way with words? The only pity about this absorbing chronicle of one of the world's great climbing challenges is that the conditions aren't right for Cool and Brodie. It would have been nice to go up with them, battling through the spindrift and the sediment of history, past the Stollenloch, the Hinterstoisser Traverse, the Flatiron, Death Bivouac, the Traverse of the Gods, the White Spider, and on to the summit. But then perhaps, in these days, when a Swiss wunderkind called Ueli Steck can scale the north face on his own in two hours and 47 minutes, it's quite reassuring that the mountain can still sometimes win.
#Eiger #ClimbingTheEiger
Ueli Steck, the “Swiss Machine,” has yet again broken the record for a solo speed ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. On November 16, 2015, Steck took advantage of good weather and climbing conditions and pushed for the summit of the classic Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) in a mere 2 hours 22 minutes.
Filmed by Samcam Film Switzerland with a Drone. Samcam Crew is specialised in aerial mountain filming including Shotover, Cineflex v14, Cineflex elite and Cineflex ultra. Motocrane Ultra
Filmed in HD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K. LiveU.
crew. Samcam film.
alpinist: ueli steck
film by: samuel gyger, samcam film
cameramen: gery gafner / samuel gyger
drone pilot: stefan hunziker
edit: maximilian eckmann
sound mix: lukas erni
music: Zachary David - Coming Home
mountain safety: hansruedi gertsch
communication: bruno fahrni, rebekka gyger, sven allenbach
thanks to: jungfrau railways & eiger vision
Relacja ze wspaniałej alpejskiej wyprawy na górę legendę - Eiger!
By dotrzeć do Aspen koło Grindelwaldu przejechałem sam 1200 km z Polski jednym ciągiem. Po przyjeździe rozbiłem namiot i zrobiłem mały rekonesans po pięknej okolicy. Położyłem się spać już o 18 by w pełni sił wyruszyć w nocy na przygodę.
O godzinie 03:30 wyszedłem z namiotu (1111m), po czym przez Brandegg, Alpiglen, szlak Eiger Trail oraz krótką ferratę o 6:50 osiągnąłem wierzchołek w zachodniej grani - Rotstock (2663m). Na Eigerze (3970m) stanąłem o 11:47. Po niespełna godzinie odpoczynku rozpocząłem zejście, by o 17:00 znaleźć się z powrotem na Rotstock Col (przełęcz pod wierzchołkiem o tej samej nazwie). Następnie zszedłem do stacji Eigergletscher, skąd szlakiem Eiger Trail z powrotem do Aspen i namiotu, który rozsunąłem o 20:40, a zwycięskie piwo już na mnie czekało :)
Nad kondycją do takich wyczynów pracowałem od dłuższego czasu. Opłaciło się bez dwóch zdań!
Moją drogą wejściową/ zejściową była Zachodnia Flanka, czyli najłatwiejszy wariant prowadzący na szczyt, który służy przeważnie do schodzenia. Trudności wspinaczkowe nie są zbyt duże, choć to też zależy jakie warianty się obiera. Prawdziwym wyzwaniem jest natomiast charakter skały. Sypki wapień osuwa się samoistnie powodując lawiny, zjeżdżanie ze stopni i zostawanie chwytów w rękach. Droga w wielu miejscach nie jest ewidentna i zdarzało mi się ją gubić. Specyfika techniczna terenu pozwala jednak na stosowanie mnogich wariantów mniej lub bardziej niebezpiecznego dojścia z punktu A do B.
Region Jungfrau jest niesamowicie malowniczym miejscem, a samo przebywanie w dolinie napawa zachwytem. Gdyby tylko Szwajcaria nie była taka droga i tak daleka..
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Tłumaczenie/ Translation: Michał Świderski
The report from the wonderful alpine expedition to the top of the legendary Eiger!
I drove alone 1200 km from Poland to Aspen near Grindelwald in one go. Upon arrival I put up my tent and did a little recon of the beautiful area. I went to sleep at 6:00 pm, as I wanted to set out early at full strength.
At 03:30 am I left the tent (1111 m) and went through Brandegg, Alpiglen and Eiger Trail. At 06:50 am, after climbing a short ferrata, I reached Rotstock (2663 m) - the peak on the west ridge. At 11:47 am I reached the summit of Eiger (3970 m). After less than an hour of rest I started the descent, and at 05:00 pm I got back to Rotstock col (the pass under Rotstock). Then I descended to Eigergletscher station, and used Eiger Trail to go back to Aspen. I entered my tent at 8:40 pm - the victory beer was already waiting for me :)
I've been working on my physical condition for a long time. It paid off, no question about it!
I went by the West Flank both ways. It’s the easiest way to the summit, usually used for descending. Climbing is not a big deal there, although it depends on the options you’re choosing. The real challenge is the nature of the rock - a free-flowing limestone, which crumbles by itself, which may result in: falling rocks, plummeting or a piece of rock in your hand just when you grabbed it. Also, the route is tricky on some parts, and I managed to get lost few times. However, the characteristics of the area allow to use different options when going from A to B, in more or less dangerous way.
Jungfrau is an incredibly picturesque region, staying in the valley is a tremendous experience. If only Switzerland wasn't so far away and so expensive...
The Eiger is a 3,970-metre (13,020ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at 4,158m (13,642ft), constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps. While the northern side of the mountain rises more than 3,000 m (10,000ft) above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces the large glaciers of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, the most glaciated region in the Alps. The most notable feature of the Eiger is its 1,800-metre-high (5,900ft) north face of rock and ice, named Eigerwand or Nordwand, which is the biggest north face in the Alps. This huge face towers the resort of Kleine Scheidegg at its base, on the homonymous pass connecting the two valleys.
The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858. The north face, considered amongst the most challenging and dangerous ascents, was first climbed in 1938 by an Austrian-German expedition. The Eiger has been highly-publicized for the many tragedies involving climbing expeditions. Since 1935, at least sixty-four climbers have died attempting the north face, earning it the German nickname Mordwand, literally "murder(ous) wall"—a pun on its correct title of Nordwand (North Wall).
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