Alpinists Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman just got down from the North face of the Eiger on Thursday (15th March), after a successful day and a half ascent of the classic 1938 route.
Nick writes to us. Also news of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' attempt with Kenton Cool and Ian Parnell, and news of the John Harlin III film and new book, The Eiger Obsession
In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com: Just to let you know we summitted with Ran this morning, although those watching ITV news will know all about this, worth watching for the awesome summit footage. A docu will be screened at th beguinning of April on ITV4 Cheers Ian
> Alpinists Nick Bullock and Andy Houseman just got down from the North face of the Eiger on Thursday (15th March), after a successful day and a half ascent of the classic 1938 route.
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Apologies in advance as this has been already posted elsewhere, but may be also of some interest here: on the same 15th two Italian guides (Matteo Giglio and Riccardo Olliveri) have climbed the NF in less than 10 hours - few nice pictures at:
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