Myself and Pete Benson made an ascent of the Classic ‘38 route on the north face of the Eiger in late October 2005. We felt very lucky to have both perfect weather and very good conditions!
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North face approach
Lucky stones
Lower slopes
Gallery window
Looking for The Difficult Crack
Wet cave bivi
Approaching the Hinterstoiser traverse
The Difficult Crack
Pete seconding the difficult crack
Approaching the Hinterstoiser traverse 2
Approaching the Hinterstoiser traverse 3
Climbing to Swallows nest
First Icefield
Second Icefield
Approaching Death Bivi
The Ramp at dawn
Approaching the waterfall chimney
Waterfall chimney
High on The Ramp
Ramp Icefield
Brittle Crack
Brittle Ledges
Traverse of the Gods
Quartz Crack
Exiting the Quartz Crack
Corti Bivi
Exit chimneys
Exit Chimneys 2
Final hard pitch
Final hard pitch 2
Exiting the face
Summit Icefield
Summit ridge
Summit ridge 2
Summit mantel
Summit sun
How do we get down?
View from the top
Way down
Thirsty!
Trainline