The ridges of Ben Nevis, Snowdonia and the Cuillin of Skye are ideal. Many British Mountain Guides offer this sort of pre-Alpine training now. Ask when booking if your guide knows the Eiger. Anecdotal ...

After two years of meticulous planning, in April 2015 America’s JT Holmes made a jaw-dropping jump off the North Face of the Eiger. Starting from the summit of this legendary mountain, the 35-year-old ...

On New Year’s Day, guests take a ride on the Jungfrau Railway, a cogwheel line passing through tunnels beneath the Eiger ...

Eiger Metanoia: Thomas Huber on one of the harder pitches of Metanoia. In the sky a hot air ballon flies by. Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, ...

spread across 31 square miles of rugged granite mountains. And it's melting. In the terminal of the new Eiger Express, a gondola that whisks you to the historic cog railroad, there's an image of ...