Jonathan (Clint Eastwood) risks his life climbing a mountain. Get your Action Pick! Watch The Eiger Sanction Here: <a ...

Sasha DiGiulian is already a champion climber, but now the 22-year-old is scaling the dangerous and deadly Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps. In the summer between her junior and senior year at ...

A few days ago Swiss alpinist Roger Schaeli reached an important milestone in his climbing career: 50 complete ascents of the Eiger. Nicknamed "Mister Eiger" for good reason evidently, the mountain ...

Sasha DiGiulian was rock climbing in Southern California this past June when a friend brought up an article he’d read about Swiss alpinists Ueli Steck and Stephan Siegrist, who pioneered a route on ...

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 ...

A college student is in the record books after becoming the first woman to tackle one of the world's toughest climbs, reports CBS News correspondent Vinita Nair. Sasha DiGiulian free climbed the north ...

From 19-24 August Swiss alpinists Silvan Schüpbach and Peter von Känel made the first ascent of Renaissance, a big new climb on the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. The pair climbed the 1220m ...

No other mountain in the Alps elicits emotions like the Eiger. Foreboding and dominant above the Alpine village of Grindelwald, it has been the inspiration for Hollywood films, books and countless ...

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.