Europe, 1963 |
 The Eiger is one of a trio of peaks in the Bernese Oberland whose names stem from a mythical story. The other two peaks are the Monch and the Jungfrau. The English names of the three peaks are thus the Ogre, the Monk, and the Maiden. This is a photograph taken from above Kleine Scheidegg looking up past the Jungfraubahn (i.e., the Jungfrau railway) towards the Monch – the monk separating and protecting the maiden from the ogre. I had wanted to do a guided climb of the Eiger (not via the North Face, I hasten to add), but I when I learnt that it would cost 180 Swiss Francs, a sum I couldn’t afford, I left Grindelwald on Saturday morning, 24 August, and drove to … |