Word: scheidegger
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Swiss guides agreed that the 1938 invaders had no better chance than their predecessors. From the hotel terrace at Kleine Scheidegg, a mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
...summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand during the blinding snowstorm, reached their goal at twilight the evening before...
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