Crossword clues for eiger
eiger
- A big mountain - one in East Germany
- Sanction in a Trevanian thriller
- Peak near the Jungfrau
- Peak in an Eastwood film
- Bernese Alps peak
- View from Grindelwald, Switzerland
- The ____ Sanction
- Swiss peak in an Eastwood film title
- Swiss peak in a Trevanian thriller
- Swiss mountain with a notorious north face
- Swiss mountain with a "sanction" in a Trevanian title
- Swiss Alp
- Peak in an Eastwood title
- Notorious Swiss peak
- Alps peak
- "The ___ Sanction" (Eastwood film)
- "The ___ Sanction" (Clint Eastwood film)
- "The ___ Sanction" (1975 Clint Eastwood film)
- "The ___ Sanction" (1972 Trevanian thriller)
- "The ___ Sanction" (1972 Trevanian novel)
- "The __ Sanction": Eastwood thriller set in the Alps
- 'The -- Sanction'
- Trevanian's "The _____ Sanction"
- Eastwood's "The _____ Sanction"
- Peak in a Trevanian title
- "The ___ Sanction" (1970's thriller)
- Peak of the Alps
- Peak in the Bernese Alps
- "The ___ Sanction" (1975 Clint Eastwood movie)
- Trevanian's peak
- "The ___ Sanction" (Trevanian book)
- Much-climbed Alpine peak
- Swiss alp with a notorious north face
- Peak southeast of Bern
- Swiss peak in an Eastwood title
- Treacherous peak in the Alps
- One of the Alps
- Alpine peak
- "The ___ Sanction": Trevanian
- "The ___ Sanction," Eastwood film
- "The ___ Sanction," 1975 film
- Alpine climber's challenge
- Trevanian novel "The ___ Sanction"
- Male avoids diet, climbing mountain
Wikipedia
The Eiger is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at , constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps. While the northern side of the mountain rises more than 3,000 m (10,000 ft) above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces the large glaciers of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, the most glaciated region in the Alps. The most notable feature of the Eiger is its north face of rock and ice, named Eigerwand or Nordwand, which is the biggest north face in the Alps. This huge face towers over the resort of Kleine Scheidegg at its base, on the homonymous pass connecting the two valleys.
The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858. The north face, considered amongst the most challenging and dangerous ascents, was first climbed in 1938 by an Austrian-German expedition. The Eiger has been highly-publicized for the many tragedies involving climbing expeditions. Since 1935, at least sixty-four climbers have died attempting the north face, earning it the German nickname Mordwand, literally "murder(ous) wall"—a pun on its correct title of Nordwand (North Wall).
Although the summit of the Eiger can be reached by experienced climbers only, a railway tunnel runs inside the mountain, and two internal stations provide easy access to viewing-windows carved into the rock face. They are both part of the Jungfrau Railway line, running from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch, between the Mönch and the Jungfrau, at the highest railway station in Europe. The two stations within the Eiger are Eigerwand (behind the north face) and Eismeer (behind the south face), at around 3,000 metres.
The Eiger is mentioned in records dating back to the 13th century, but there is no clear indication of how exactly the peak gained its name. The three mountains of the ridge are commonly referred to as the Virgin (German: Jungfrau – translates to "virgin" or "maiden"), the Monk (Mönch), and the Ogre (Eiger; the standard German word for ogre is Oger). The name has been linked to the Latin term acer, meaning "sharp" or "pointed", but more commonly to the German eigen, meaning "own".
Eiger can be:
- Eiger, a mountain in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland
- Eiger IL, a football club from Norway
- Eiger (Greenland), a mountain in Greenland
- Eiger (neighbourhood), a neighbourhood in Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Eiger (street), a street in Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (probably in the neighbourhood above)
- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, an operating system from Microsoft (Eiger was one of the codenames)