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 ...

On Saturday morning, a major rockfall occurred on the North Face of the Eiger, covering the Swiss valley in a cloud of dust. A cloud of dust remained for hours after the rockfall. Photo: ...

This former graveyard of the ambitious into a playground for professionals. A journalist photographs the Eiger north face during a Media event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first ...

The following is a script from “Taking on the Eiger” which aired on Nov. 29, 2015, and was rebroadcast on Feb. 26, 2017. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Tom Anderson, producer. Michelle St. John ...

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 ...

Benjamin Vedrines has wrapped up another non-stop alpine endeavor. Vedrines climbed the legendary North Faces of the Grandes Jorasses-Matterhorn-Eiger trilogy in a week, without motorized travel ...

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 ...