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Toni Kurz’s agony on the north face of the Eiger: 90 years since mountaineering’s greatest tragedy
In July 1936, the four climbers attempting the first ascent of the face lost their lives, giving rise to a horror story that shaped the way mountaineering was portrayed for decades… until Ueli Steck came along The north face of the Eiger, an intimidating, seemingly endless wall of rock, ice, and snow with 1,800 meters of vertical relief in the Swiss Bernese Alps, had not yet been climbed in 1936 — a “problem” to be solved, and a propaganda opport…
