The Most Famous North Face

Towering vertically above Grindelwald, the impressive rock wall of the Eiger north face never fails to fascinate visitors. To this day it has not lost any of its mystique as “the wall of walls” for mountaineers. It was only in 1938 that the first alpinists, the Germans Andreas Heckmair and Ludwig Vörg and the Austrians Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek, discovered a route through the north face to the summit of the Eiger.

With the Jungfrau Railway through the Eiger