The following is a script from "Taking on the Eiger" which aired on Nov. 29, 2015. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Tom Anderson, producer. The Eiger -- in the Swiss Alps -- is one of the most ...

Sasha DiGiulian is already a champion climber, but now the 22-year-old is scaling the dangerous and deadly Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps. In the summer between her junior and senior year at ...

This former graveyard of the ambitious into a playground for professionals. A journalist photographs the Eiger north face during a Media event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first ...

On Saturday morning, a major rockfall occurred on the North Face of the Eiger, covering the Swiss valley in a cloud of dust. A cloud of dust remained for hours after the rockfall. Photo: ...

Sometimes, global warming can help put money in your pocket. Hansruedi Burgener has welcomed up to 800 people a day -- twice the average number of visitors -- to his remote mountain hostel in the Alps ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Two climbers are taking on the north face of Switzerland's Eiger Mountain for a unique photo project.Extreme climber Stephan Siegrist and the reigning speed record holder Daniel Arnold, climbed up the ...

1. Which country borders the Gulf of Thailand — Cambodia or Pakistan? 2. Which country has direct access to the Red Sea — Turkey or Jordan? 3. Wood carvers are commissioned to make elaborate coffins ...

While Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” dealt exhaustively with the 1936 Olympics competition in Berlin, Philipp Stölzl’s “North Face” impressively dramatizes a lesser-known event that led up to the Games.