The Eiger North Face, Switzerland

This animation shows the view of the Eiger from my window at the Berghaus Bort, above Grindelwald, Switzerland. Watch the first morning sun touch the Eiger, and later watch the Eiger melt into darkness at the end of the day. (The two lights you see at night are from a hut on the left ridge, and from a window of the cog railway running inside the Eiger). For the classic account of mountaineering on the Eiger read The White Spider.