I may have gotten some of the details slightly wrong here, as some of the sources are slightly inconsistent, and the main original source for everyone’s accounts (“The White Spider”) was written several years after the events of the 1936 attempt.
If you’re intersted in more stories like these, I strongly recommend “14 Peaks”. It’s a documenatary about perhaps the greatest climber of our generation, a Nepalese man named “Nims Purja”, and his team of climbers who tried to climb all 14 8000+ meter peaks in a seven months. Before this attempt, the record for climbing all 14 peaks was seven years.
Sources: “The Beckoning Silence” 1936 Eiger climbing disaster The white spider (book)
I may have gotten some of the details slightly wrong here, as some of the sources are slightly inconsistent, and the main original source for everyone’s accounts (“The White Spider”) was written several years after the events of the 1936 attempt.
If you’re intersted in more stories like these, I strongly recommend “14 Peaks”. It’s a documenatary about perhaps the greatest climber of our generation, a Nepalese man named “Nims Purja”, and his team of climbers who tried to climb all 14 8000+ meter peaks in a seven months. Before this attempt, the record for climbing all 14 peaks was seven years.