Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a fighter pilot stationed in Germany during the 1960s, John Harlin II spent every free minute climbing in the Alps. Soon he became obsessed with one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 22, 1966, American climber John Harlin fell 1,000m to his death on the Eiger’s North Face. He was just 600m from ...

While Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” dealt exhaustively with the 1936 Olympics competition in Berlin, Philipp Stölzl’s “North Face” impressively dramatizes a lesser-known event that led up to the Games.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pasquale Scaturro has climbed Mount Everest three times, navigated the deadly Blue Nile River and confronted disease, wild animals and restless militias in ...

Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger have shattered a 21-year-old record, scaling the north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in just 15 hours and 30 minutes. This is how they did it. Swiss pro ...

THE Eiger – which translates as the Ogre- is is a 13,000ft mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It became famous in the 1930s when people would gather to catch glimpses of climbing parties ...

At least two people have died after a "severe" avalanche on the Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps on Saturday, local police say. The avalanche took place shortly after midday, and swept away seven ...

This video shows Harder Kulm overlooking Interlaken, Switzerland, a mountain viewpoint positioned high above the valley ...

The following is a script from "Taking on the Eiger" which aired on Nov. 29, 2015. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Tom Anderson, producer. The Eiger -- in the Swiss Alps -- is one of the most ...

Nicolas Hojac and Philipp Brugger have shattered a 21-year-old record, scaling the north faces of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in just 15 hours and 30 minutes. This is how they did it. Swiss pro ...