climbing

  • Hinterstoisser Traverse & Death Bivouac

    March 6 2010: Just watched NORTH FACE, a movie about two German climbers,  Andreas Hinterstoisser and Toni Kurz, attempt to summit Eiger’s North Face. All drama and love aside, it was a very brutal and exposing reality of climbing a mountain in terrible weather conditions. Watching this film brought back the question which I’ve tried to answer many times: why…