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The Eiger is located above the Lauterbrunnen Valley to the west and Grindelwald to the north in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern. [7] It forms a renowned mountain range of the Bernese Alps together with its two companions: the Jungfrau (4,158 m (13,642 ft)) about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) southwest of it and the Mönch (4,107 m ...
Paramount Pictures 1994 film Pontiac Moon featured this location as part of the roadtrip. The Sunchaser (1996) features the site; Wild America (1997) features scenes of Monument Valley. The Return of Navajo Boy (2000), a documentary about uranium contamination of Navajo lands, was shot largely in Monument Valley where its central characters ...
The north face of the Eiger. The six great north faces of the Alps are a group of vertical faces in the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps known in mountaineering for their difficulty, danger, and great height. The "Trilogy" is the three hardest of these north faces, being the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses, and the Matterhorn.
The 125 most topographically prominent summits on Earth; No. Peak Range (or island) Location Coordinates [1]Prominence (m) Height (m) Col (m) Encirclement parent Prominence parent
Sue Nott (1969–2006) US, ice climber and first American woman to climb the Eiger north face in winter (2003) Wilfrid Noyce (1917–1962) UK, on Everest expedition (1953), reaching South Col, killed in Pamirs (1962) Arne Næss (1912–2009) Norway, philosopher and mountaineer, leader of expedition on first ascent Tirich Mir (1950)
Another tongue, at 3,200 to 3,500 m (10,500 to 11,500 ft) above sea level, is in the form of a hanging glacier between the Eiger and Little Eiger. The glacier is 2.59 km (1.61 mi) with an area of 1.54 km 2 (0.59 sq mi), reduced from an area of 2.13 km 2 (0.82 sq mi) recorded in 1973. [2]
The only access to the station other than by train is a door in the sheer face of the mountain. This has, on occasion, been used to rescue mountaineers stranded on the mountain, most famously during the 1936 Eiger north face climbing disaster. [2] [3] It features in this capacity in the 1975 film The Eiger Sanction. It lies close to the ...
It is located on the border dividing Argentina and Chile, [3] west of Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén). At 3,128 m (10,262 ft), the peak is the highest of a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger (2,685 m (8,809 ft)), [ 4 ] Punta Herron, and Cerro Standhardt.