Claudio Corti who attempted to climb the N Face of the Eiger in 1957 with Stefano Longhi and was rescued, has died. They met up with Gunther Nothdurft and Franz Mayer who also did not make it down. Longhi died up there also.
http://planetmountain.com/english/News/ ... eyid=37233 (in English)
http://www.intotherocks.splinder.com/ (in Italian with pictures)

Someone may be interested in this

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2483

Feedback appreciated!

Thank you for your excellent and enlightening account of this epic. I was intrigued by this
climb after reading The Climb up to Hell by Jack Olsen.

signorellil wrote:Someone may be interested in this

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2483

Feedback appreciated!

Great article and nicely written. Thanks for posting it.

Cy Kaicener wrote:Thank you for your excellent and enlightening account of this epic. I was intrigued by this
climb after reading The Climb up to Hell by Jack Olsen.

The one in the centre of the third row:



http://www.summitpost.org/image/130363/ ... route.html

signorellil wrote:Someone may be interested in this

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2483

Feedback appreciated!

Thank you for the excellent article!

Very good article on a very sobering story.

The last (and one of the very few) interviews ever given by Corti. He speaks in his usual, incomprehensible Lecco dialect (very difficult to understand even for an Italian like me!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zM40G3PTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFheqzc1-ck

Thanks for the videos Luca.
Wikipedia has assembled these details which can be edited for accuracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Corti
http://www.montagna.org/node/4991