May 07, 2010 — August 08, 2010

May 07, 2010 — May 13, 2010

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Films

North Face

Movie fans might recall The Eiger Sanction, a rather campy, preposterous spy thriller built around an astounding mountain-climbing set-piece.  The real “star” of that film was not Clint Eastwood but the Eiger, the 13,000 ft. high Swiss mountain whose treacherous north face was a legendary source of defeat—and death—for climbers, earning it the German nickname Mordwand (“Death Wall”).  A lot of mountains are high, and many are difficult, but there was something spooky and…

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