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Eiger South Flank over the Ischmeer glacier

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Enlarge the photo to see the climber on the ridge. It will give you a good perspective on the size of the walls. The windows of the Eismeer train station can be seen in the far background.

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kiss istván

The climber

Voted 10/10

in the middle makes it very impressive. Lucky situation with white snow behind the man. Good job!

Posted Aug 11, 2009 9:20 am


	sergio	Re: The climber
	Hasn't voted	Thank you!
		Posted Aug 11, 2009 2:37 pm

hansw

Things have changed!

Voted 10/10

As I remember no rappel was needed 13 years ago. We stepped directly from the tunnel on to the glacier. (The windows at the Eismeer station are clearly shown above the snow).

Nice and informative picture!

/Hans

Posted Aug 16, 2009 12:08 pm


	sergio	Re: Things have changed!
	Hasn't voted	Because of the receding glaciers, the windows are way above the glacier. If you take the first left inside the tunnel, you will need to rappel. If you continue all the way down to the end of the tunnel like I did, you can do it with a short rappel and a lot of down climbing. Global warming is really screwing things up.
		Posted Aug 16, 2009 1:34 pm

mtybumpo

Train station?

Voted 10/10

I'm not from Europe so I don't know much about this place. There is a train station under the mountain in the rock? That's amazing! How long has it been there?

Posted Aug 16, 2009 11:27 pm


	hansw	Re: Train station?
	Voted 10/10	The original plan was to have the end station on the Jungfrau summit (4158m). Luckily that did not happen. Instead they stopped at Jungfraujoch (3454m) after sixteen years of work. The year was 1912. See: http://www3.utsidan.se/hansw/images/jungh_10.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungfraubahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger
		Posted Aug 17, 2009 3:41 am