As we write, Thomas Huber is on the legendary North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps ... Huber and Schild pitched their first bivouac right above the Hinterstoisser Traverse.

The most ominous feature of the Eiger - the 5,900-foot North Face known as Mordwand or the ‘Death Wall’, has attracted and deterred mountaineers from around the world for centuries.