The Eiger's Most NOTORIOUS Mountaineering Accident| Toni Kurz Tragedy
Channel: Terror Twin
Date: 2024-03-03

Mountaineering in the 1900s was a fast-paced, dangerous, but ever-changing sport. Men from all over the world would conjugate to one location, where they would risk their lives through deadly perils, just to have their names go down in history as the first-ever successful summit of a route or peak. Many outsiders looking in, read the newspapers in awe of climbers like Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. While those part of the community were in brutal, year-long battles against snow, ice, and rock that cost many people their lives. 

Over the years, a few mountains became notorious due to a factor of reasons… size, difficulty, location, weather, you name it… but conquering one of these peaks meant your name would never be forgotten. Toni Kurz, a German mountain climber in the 1930s would be chasing the first summit on one of these peaks… the most famous rockwall in the world… the North face of the Eiger.. This is his story..

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