Robert Jasper Has Spent a Year of His Life on the Eiger North Face
Robert Jasper has spent decades at the top of German alpinism and a year of his life on the Eiger’s notorious North Face. How do you not know his name?
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Aleister Crowley, The Wickedest Climber Ever?
He made the first attempts on K2 and Kanchenjunga, and was a visionary rock climber putting up difficult routes in the late 1800s, but his climbing later took a backseat to his unsavory reputation as an occultist and sex fiend.
The Six Alpine Faces Climbers Were Willing to Die For (and some still are)
The Eiger, Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses, Petite Dru, Piz Badille and the Cima Grande.