Swiss climber Nicolas Hojac and his Austrian partner Philipp Brugger shattered a 21-year-old record by completing the North Faces of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in 15 hours and 30 minutes — ...

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 ...

Photo courtesy of MacGillivray Freeman Films John Harlin III's ascent of the Eiger's North Face is a focal point for the IMAX film, "The Alps." (Photo courtesy of MacGillivray Freeman Films / The ...

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 ...

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 completing his ambitious Direttissima route. Fifty-nine years later, we look ...

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.

I have always skipped over holiday articles about the Alps, put off by photographs of brightly clad skiers whizzing down the slopes. It looked wonderful but it didn’t seem like a promising destination ...

We're 8,000ft up in the Swiss Alps between the villages of Murren and Griesalp, and the weather has taken a turn for the worse. Clouds have rolled in and lightning illuminates the sky, with peals of ...

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 ...