Death And Rescue On The Eiger North Face When the two Italians Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi started up the Eiger in 1957, no climber had been rescued alive from the North Face. At the link in bio, Bruce Hildenbrand recounts the first successful rescue on the face. Hildenbrand's feature has all the characteristics of a properly cataclysmic climbing epic: dropped food, bad storms, slow progress, abandoned comrades, missing party members, valiant rescues, big names (Lionel Terray!), and decades of ensuing confusion about what exactly happened until, finally, some snow melted and new evidence appeared. Tap the link in bio to read it (for subscribers).