Eiger

And the story shows that at repeated times over the years Eisner was extremely critical of Eiger and so much so that at one point, Tom Murphy, the highly respected former chairman of Cap Cities ABC and a member of the Disney board, called Eiger on his vacation and said, Bob, you have got to quit, you cannot stay here, Michael does not have any confidence in you.

CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2005 2005

And the story shows that at repeated times over the years Eisner was extremely critical of Eiger and so much so that at one point, Tom Murphy, the highly respected former chairman of Cap Cities ABC and a member of the Disney board, called Eiger on his vacation and said, Bob, you have got to quit, you cannot stay here, Michael does not have any confidence in you.

CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2005 2005

Of all peaks, the Eiger is the most impressive to me.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

The prospect of free climbing the Eiger is a pretty scary one but it didn't worry adventurer Dean Potter - he had a (very small) parachute on his back.

Home 2010

The prospect of free climbing the Eiger is a pretty scary one but it didn't worry adventurer Dean Potter - he had a (very small) parachute on his back.

Home 2010

Before he was 18, Mr. Albert had ascended many of the classic alpine routes, including the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses and the North Face of the Eiger.

Obituary: Freestyle mountain climber Kurt Albert dies of injuries from fall T. Rees Shapiro 2010

The novel that his estate sanctioned to posthumously expand his oeuvre does not besmirch the Trevanian tradition of spinning entertaining spy tales like "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) and "Shibumi" (1979).

Fighting Crime, Vexed by the Past Tom Nolan 2011

Eiger -- famous for its killer north face -- could derive from the Latin acer, meaning sharp, or the old German ger, meaning a spear or javelin.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011

And he was good at it, climbing the north face of the Eiger and other hard alpine climbs.

Kurt Albert obituary Ed Douglas 2010

In fact, it's almost as if the Swiss want to keep the recipe secret, tucked away in a subterranean vault, as establishing anything concrete about this Alpine favourite, from the type of potatoes used to the cooking method, is a feat akin to scaling the north face of the Eiger.

How to cook the perfect rösti 2011