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...Grindelwald, Switzerland, all of Europe's top skiers were on hand for the winter's biggest pre-Olympic competition. When lack of snow forced cancellation of the downhill race and threatened to wipe out the whole program, the Swiss moved the races to the base of the Eiger, a forbidding 13,036-ft. peak in the Bernese Alps that has claimed the lives of a score of mountain climbers...
...Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting...
...Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting...
...Prayer for a Miracle. A zealot who scorned careful preparation, Corti could find no experienced climber to go with him up the Eiger. He had to settle for a good-natured, 44-year-old factory worker, Stefano Longhi, who had never made a strenuous climb. Without so much as glancing at a map of the route, Corti and Longhi impetuously started climbing. Part way up they met two Germans also making the climb and joined forces. Trouble began. One of the Germans developed stomach cramps, and Longhi ran out of breath...
...mountain, Olsen conveys the hell within Corti. Alone on his ledge, Corti cursed the planes that buzzed uselessly by. After his rescue, he murmured gratefully, "How beautiful the sun is." But in the next breath, to his rescuers' dismay, he boasted exultantly that he had conquered the Eiger. Later, he was pilloried in the press and charged with deserting Longhi to save himself. When he was finally vindicated, he swore that he would attempt the mountain once again. "I dream about it all the time, that evil wall," he told Olsen, "I dream that I am on the summit...