The First People To Conquer The Alps' Deadliest Mountain | Climbing For The Fatherland | Timeline

JUL 03 2021 · 12:00

One mountain face in particular came to be seen as the Last Great Problem: the vast, brooding Eiger Nordwand in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. The world's finest climbers were lured to its foot - and perished in the merciless world of ice and storm that awaited them above. Then in 1938 an Austro-German team conquered the face amid bitter accusations that they were climbing for Hitler. It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit to start watching now https://bit.ly/45CPh5u You can