Temperatures well below freezing might be familiar from Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland, or Alaska–they’re quite rare in ...

If you can’t get enough of snow and ice in winter, you should visit the Schellenberg Ice Cave. It is Germany’s only show ice ...

Toni Kurz was an intrepid German mountaineer but his life would meet a tragic end while attempting to climb the treacherous ...

At just 23, Kurz and Hinterstoisser were lured to the mountain face that would cost one climber his life. The North Face of ...

Toni Kurz was forced to cut the ropes tying him to his dead companions before attempting to descend the icy North Face of the ...

The Bavarian Alps is the quintessential picture-postcard destination - a long line of snow-capped peaks which runs along ...

German climber Toni Kurz became trapped on the deadly Eiger North Face after a storm struck. Despite rescuers being just feet ...

Man realised he had made a simple but fatal error that would leave him a grasp away from surviving a deadly climb ...

Tragedy struck when Toni Kurz and his team climbed the North Face of the Eiger, in one of the most haunting mountaineering ...

Toni Kurz was born in 1913 in Bavaria and grew up with a love of climbing. His life was tragically cut short on the North ...

Toni Kurz died in one of mountaineering's most haunting tragedies - dangling just metres from his rescuers on the Eiger ...