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unusual facts about North Face



Music Box Films

Other Music Box releases have included the Academy Award-nominated film Monsieur Lazhar (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film), Séraphine (winner of seven César Awards in France), Mozart's Sister, North Face, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Names of Love.

Toni Kurz

The tragic story became well known after publication of Heinrich Harrer's classic 1960 book The White Spider and was more recently covered by Joe Simpson's book (and Emmy-winning TV documentary), The Beckoning Silence, as well as the 2008 German dramatic movie North Face.


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Andy Cave

After soloing the north face of the Col du Plan, he climbed: the Bonatti Pillar, Aiguille du Dru; the Freney Pillar directissima, Mont Blanc; Gervussutti Pillar, Mt Blanc du Tacul; Walker Spur, Grandes Jorrasses; Brenva Spur, Mt Blanc; Eiger north face, Droites north face.

Armando Aste

He led the first Italian ascent of the Eiger north face in 1962, together with Pierlorenzo Acquistapace, Gildo Airoldi, Andrea Mellano, Romano Perego and Franco Solina.

The book tells the story of the first Italian ascent of the Eiger north face.

Claude Kogan

Following the war, the couple became members of the Groupe de Haute Montagne and climbed Chamonix, Dauphiné, the north face of the Dru and the south ridge of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey.

David Boynton

Boynton's body was found in February, 2007 at the foot of a 300 foot cliff on the north face of the remote Miloli'i Valley of the Na Pali coast, by all evidence the victim of an accident on the difficult trail.

Jack Durrance

Some of his classic first ascents include the North Face of the Grand Teton and the "Durrance Route" on Devils Tower.

Joe Tasker

Fascinated by a book recounting harrowing tales of tragic attempts to climb the North Face of the Eiger, he started climbing in a nearby quarry in 1966.

Louis Lachenal

Previously he had made the second ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1947, with Lionel Terray.

Matt Dickinson

In the pre-monsoon Everest season of 1996, amid the worst weather conditions on record, with Alan Hinkes, Britain's foremost high-altitude climber, Dickinson made a successful ascent of Mount Everest's notorious North Face, one of the most technically demanding climbs on the world's highest peak, beating hurricane force winds and temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius.

Maurice Herzog

Annapurna was not climbed again until 1970, when the French north face route was climbed by a British Army expedition, simultaneously with an ascent of the south face by an expedition led by British climber Chris Bonington.

Peter Gillman

His book, Direttissima; the Eiger Assault, also published under the title, Eiger Direct, co-authored with Dougal Haston, published in 1967, told the story of the ascent of the Eiger North Face in which John Harlin II lost his life.

Philip J. K. James

He has also climbed on five continents and climbed Mount Everest in 2003 and played a role in the high altitude rescue of Conan Harrod from Everest's North Face.

Pic Gaspard

Subsequently, several routes were opened including the south-southeast arête conquered by Lucien Devies and Giusto Gervasutti in 1935, and that of the north face defeated by Albert Tobey and Louis Berger in 1948.

Pierre Allain

He wore these on the sandstone boulders as well as on the granite walls of the Alps, where he made several famous first ascents, including the north face of the Aiguille du Dru.

Pointe de Paumont

Administratively the mountain is divided between the commune of Avrieux (F, north face) and the comune of Bardonecchia (I, south-western and south-eastern faces).

Puncak Jaya

The now highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – Philip Temple, Russell Kippax and Albertus Huizenga.

Rock of Gibraltar

General Elliot, afterwards Lord Heathfield, who commanded the garrison throughout the siege, was anxious to bring flanking fire on the Spanish batteries in the plain below the North face of the Rock.

Teton Glacier

Teton Glacier is a mountain glacier located below the north face of Grand Teton in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States.

The Beckoning Silence

The Beckoning Silence is a 2007 British television film that follows and retraces the unsuccessful attempt to scale the north face of the Eiger led by Toni Kurz in 1936.

The Eiger Sanction

For the second, he will need to join a group of climbers who are about to attempt the north face of the Eiger, a particularly difficult challenge.