ASCENT OF MT. EIGER
North Face Climbed (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) r GRINDEWALD (Switzerland), July 17. Two French mountaineers, Louis Lachenal and Lional Terray, have climbed the north face of Mount Eiger (13,000 ft). , In atrocious weather they accomplished a feat which is regarded as being as momentous as Whymper’s conquest of the Matterhorn. The ascent is reported to be a climbers’ graveyard. , Lachenal and Terray began climbing on July 4 and pushed on through thunderstorms io reach the summit next day. >
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 236, 18 July 1947, Page 3
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