History
The Eigerwand Recoveries of 1936 and 1957
Two failed attempts on the north face of the Eiger left bodies on the wall. The recoveries — twenty-one years apart — became part of what the route now means.
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History
Two failed attempts on the north face of the Eiger left bodies on the wall. The recoveries — twenty-one years apart — became part of what the route now means.
Rescues
Toni Kurz died fifteen metres from his rescuers on the morning of July 22, 1936. The recovery of his body, and of the three men who had died above him, took six weeks and changed what mountain rescue meant in the Bernese Oberland.