The Eiger is first ascended on August…

August 1858 CE

The Eiger is first ascended on August 11, 1858.

A 3,967-meter (13,015 foot) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais, the Eiger is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at 4,158 m (13,642 ft), constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps.

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