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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Eiger Team Record Bested Again

Less than a month after Simon Anthamatten and Roger Schali broke the team (seilschaft) record on the Eiger Nordwand (see the February 5, 2008 NewsWire), Daniel Arnold and Stephen Ruoss of Switzerland have done it again. Besting Anthamatten and Schali by forty minutes, their ascent from the bottom of the Heckmair Route (ED2, 1800m, 1938) to the top of the Eiger (3970m) took 6 hours, 10 minutes...

Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.

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