The Eiger // On the Edge of the Murderwall - Mountain trips
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Date: 2023-01-17
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Stephen
Nice video guys! When I saw you starting on your trek I was thinking. their backpacks are like I would have for a Sunday stroll! No rope, no sleeping bag. but you knocked off that route. That is the route that North Facers use to get back down isn't it? The American lack of ability to use and comprehend the European languages is just mind blowing. You are even worse than us, the British, and we are awful. I despair really. Please learn how to pronounce places etc. just as a courtesy. You were in a country that is very proud of its culture. and you couldn't even be bothered to remember, let alone pronounce, the name of the railway that took you up the mountain so that you could enjoy a day out.
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Nice video guys! When I saw you starting on your trek I was thinking. their backpacks are like I would have for a Sunday stroll! No rope, no sleeping bag. but you knocked off that route. That is the route that North Facers use to get back down isn't it? The American lack of ability to use and comprehend the European languages is just mind blowing. You are even worse than us, the British, and we are awful. I despair really. Please learn how to pronounce places etc. just as a courtesy. You were in a country that is very proud of its culture. and you couldn't even be bothered to remember, let alone pronounce, the name of the railway that took you up the mountain so that you could enjoy a day out.
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James
Maybe Im just oldand I admit majority of my mountaineering days are far behind mebut I would not have attempted that climb without roping up, and I certainly would not have continued onto those ice conditions without crampons. If the weather had deteriorated at all (and it does so on the Eiger unpredictably and often) you could have been in very deep trouble up there with no way to retreat without ice gear. Im glad you had a safe and successful climb, and the footage was awesome. Thanks for sharing, and please stay safe.
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Maybe Im just oldand I admit majority of my mountaineering days are far behind mebut I would not have attempted that climb without roping up, and I certainly would not have continued onto those ice conditions without crampons. If the weather had deteriorated at all (and it does so on the Eiger unpredictably and often) you could have been in very deep trouble up there with no way to retreat without ice gear. Im glad you had a safe and successful climb, and the footage was awesome. Thanks for sharing, and please stay safe.
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FoleyHatten
I haven't watched the whole thing and I'm not a mountaineer so bare with me, but why walk so close to the edge on the way up? I thought climbing was about mitigating risk from all that I've gathered - that seems like the total opposite. I mean if they just walked like 2 meters to the right nothing would happen if they have a minor slip or something, but if that happened there you are dead. Can someone explain? Seems unwise even by thrill seeking adventure standards where risk is part of it
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I haven't watched the whole thing and I'm not a mountaineer so bare with me, but why walk so close to the edge on the way up? I thought climbing was about mitigating risk from all that I've gathered - that seems like the total opposite. I mean if they just walked like 2 meters to the right nothing would happen if they have a minor slip or something, but if that happened there you are dead. Can someone explain? Seems unwise even by thrill seeking adventure standards where risk is part of it
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Judy
That black ice is super scary, I would have turned back. Many, many years ago I knew someone who went up the same route and saw two climbers slipping on that black ice - one recovered by sheer luck of slipping onto a drier outcropping, the other slid, then just tumbled head over feet millions of times down the shoulder and they said his body was unrecognizable at the bottom. Yeah, no thanks. Conditions are a mountain's way of saying You may not climb me. And I respect that.
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That black ice is super scary, I would have turned back. Many, many years ago I knew someone who went up the same route and saw two climbers slipping on that black ice - one recovered by sheer luck of slipping onto a drier outcropping, the other slid, then just tumbled head over feet millions of times down the shoulder and they said his body was unrecognizable at the bottom. Yeah, no thanks. Conditions are a mountain's way of saying You may not climb me. And I respect that.
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Ramboss
That's weird but I've seen thumbnail of your Matterhornus video a dozen of times through the last month and finally today something scratch me in the back of my head and click it. Then I see you guys who randomly passed me on the way down from Eiger. Nice to see your bearded friend. I like his ice cold taint on beard.
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That's weird but I've seen thumbnail of your Matterhornus video a dozen of times through the last month and finally today something scratch me in the back of my head and click it. Then I see you guys who randomly passed me on the way down from Eiger. Nice to see your bearded friend. I like his ice cold taint on beard.
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Jimbo
I've read a lot of books about this face, it kickstarted my interest in mountaineering when I was a kid. However, this is not mountaineering. This is, as they mentioned, Disneyland. Ladders and fixed ropes in every direction. Sad to think that nobody will truly climb the north face ever again.
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I've read a lot of books about this face, it kickstarted my interest in mountaineering when I was a kid. However, this is not mountaineering. This is, as they mentioned, Disneyland. Ladders and fixed ropes in every direction. Sad to think that nobody will truly climb the north face ever again.
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Teesee
Well done as a hike but the grandma route doesnt convey the extreme difficulty, to say the least, of actually climbing the Eiger wall which requires mind boggling aptitude for ice climbing, mountaineering and courage facing death at any any moment. See Chris Bonington books and videos.
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Well done as a hike but the grandma route doesnt convey the extreme difficulty, to say the least, of actually climbing the Eiger wall which requires mind boggling aptitude for ice climbing, mountaineering and courage facing death at any any moment. See Chris Bonington books and videos.
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Doug
YIkes! That exposure is making my palms sweat. If you have wives or girlfriends, do they watch these videos? I don't know how they give you their blessing for these adventures. Every time I start watching, I just have to assume you wouldn't have uploaded it if, you know.
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YIkes! That exposure is making my palms sweat. If you have wives or girlfriends, do they watch these videos? I don't know how they give you their blessing for these adventures. Every time I start watching, I just have to assume you wouldn't have uploaded it if, you know.
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Ryan
I'm very impressed. Spent a few weeks of my life in lauterbrunnen but I only rode the tram and trains, did some short walks to exit points, and flew my canopy back to the valley.
You folks go hard! I feel lazy just watching; -)
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I'm very impressed. Spent a few weeks of my life in lauterbrunnen but I only rode the tram and trains, did some short walks to exit points, and flew my canopy back to the valley.
You folks go hard! I feel lazy just watching; -)
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DELBOURG
It does seem insane to me that you guys would do all of that without ropes or any protection really, any specific reason for that choice? That being said the videos are great and it does a great job of showing those mountains!
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It does seem insane to me that you guys would do all of that without ropes or any protection really, any specific reason for that choice? That being said the videos are great and it does a great job of showing those mountains!
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Empreinte
Hey guys, did you do the west ridge? I can't find any information? What is the name of the route called and I have also seen the blue and white traces of the Swiss alpine hikes, but I can't find anything on the map?
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Hey guys, did you do the west ridge? I can't find any information? What is the name of the route called and I have also seen the blue and white traces of the Swiss alpine hikes, but I can't find anything on the map?
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MrMaxLions
The hotel owner in Grindelwald told us that the Eiger claims many lives every climbing season. He said the bodies are left there until the summer melts the ice when the rescuers can get to the unfortunate climbers
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The hotel owner in Grindelwald told us that the Eiger claims many lives every climbing season. He said the bodies are left there until the summer melts the ice when the rescuers can get to the unfortunate climbers
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DP
This is exactly the reason why we have a few people dying every week in Swiss alps. Taking very high risks without a local mountain guide. You where one slip away from certain death.
Consider yourself lucky.
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This is exactly the reason why we have a few people dying every week in Swiss alps. Taking very high risks without a local mountain guide. You where one slip away from certain death.
Consider yourself lucky.
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travel
I have climbed 5 of the 14K peaks in CO. This video reminds me of those days, although the scenery was significantly different, and the edge route much more frightening! Incredible video, thanks for sharing!
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I have climbed 5 of the 14K peaks in CO. This video reminds me of those days, although the scenery was significantly different, and the edge route much more frightening! Incredible video, thanks for sharing!
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Daniel
Could I ask what model those black and yellow La Sportiva shoes are? Are they the TX Guides? Almost look more like a trail runner. I dig a lot of the Sportiva shoes in general but didn't love the Guides.
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Could I ask what model those black and yellow La Sportiva shoes are? Are they the TX Guides? Almost look more like a trail runner. I dig a lot of the Sportiva shoes in general but didn't love the Guides.
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Paul
Typical americanizzzzzzed video. Patronising the country involved. Ooooofff. Be sympathetic of the area you travel to. The eiger is pretty important for the local community and worldwide mountaineers.
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Typical americanizzzzzzed video. Patronising the country involved. Ooooofff. Be sympathetic of the area you travel to. The eiger is pretty important for the local community and worldwide mountaineers.
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tunemaking
I literally get sick to my stomach watching anyone climb the types of mountains and routes like thisand you call yourselves amateurId be 50 up somewhere like this begging anyone to get me down!
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I literally get sick to my stomach watching anyone climb the types of mountains and routes like thisand you call yourselves amateurId be 50 up somewhere like this begging anyone to get me down!
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BaBa
How long it took for you guys to go on the top of Eiger, seems like it's not that much hard to climb there, would you sugges to a normal hiker like me to go there without any professionalism
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How long it took for you guys to go on the top of Eiger, seems like it's not that much hard to climb there, would you sugges to a normal hiker like me to go there without any professionalism
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PsycOtic
There are a lot of areas on that climb that look like very degraded and crumbly granite and even some loose slate. Wonder what it is like during the summer thaw.
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There are a lot of areas on that climb that look like very degraded and crumbly granite and even some loose slate. Wonder what it is like during the summer thaw.
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John
Great video. Can someone tell me what route this is and how much experience u would need to climb it. It doesn't look that difficult, but I'm sure it's deceiving.
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Great video. Can someone tell me what route this is and how much experience u would need to climb it. It doesn't look that difficult, but I'm sure it's deceiving.
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