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Tragedy & Triumph 1966
Description
Full title reads: "Eiger. Tragedy & Triumph".
Switzerland. The North Face of the Eiger Mountain is conquered, but not without casualties.
GV Pan the north face of the Eiger. Air view the summit, with climbers up there. GV The north face.
GV The church at Leysin where the...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 33250
- Sort Number:
- 66/026
- Time in/Out:
- 01:13:49:00 / 01:15:27:00
- Canister:
- 66/26
- Film ID:
- 1799.09
- Issue Date:
- 31/03/1966
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The fifth climber in the team, not currently documented, was Gunther Strobel.
"Crowd outside hotel" - these scenes take place in Kleine Scheidegg, the small hamlet beneath the Eiger.
At 01:23, the bearded man with the camera round his neck looks like British mountaineer Chris Bonington, who was filming the climb for the Daily Telegraph. But I'm willing to be proved wrong on that!