Swiss climber Nicolas Hojac and his Austrian partner Philipp Brugger shattered a 21-year record by completing the North Faces of the Eiger, Monch, and Jungfrau in only 15 hours and 30 minutes, shattering the previous record by almost 10 hours, this was announced on Tuesday (April 15).
00:00Swiss climber Nicholas Hojak and his Austrian partner Philip Bruegger shattered a 21-year record by completing the north faces of the Eiger, Monk and Jungfrau in only 15 hours and 30 minutes, shattering the previous record by almost 10 hours.
00:19The climb in the Bernese Alps, completed on April 9, saw the pair broke the previous record of 25 hours by Swiss alpinists Waley Steck and Stefan Siegrist in 2004.
00:33The duo began their ascent in the darkness and reached the Eiger in just under six hours, a distance that takes many amateur climbers one or two days. Seizing the time advantage, they never let it slip.
