The First People To Conquer The Alps’ Deadliest Mountain | Climbing For The Fatherland | Timeline

One mountain face in particular came to be seen as the Last Great Problem: the vast, brooding Eiger Nordwand in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland. The world’s finest climbers were lured to its foot – and perished in the merciless world of ice and storm that awaited them above. Then in 1938 an Austro-German team conquered the face amid bitter accusations that they were climbing for Hitler.

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