Climbing The Eiger via Mittellegi Ridge (Mittellegigrat) | August 2021

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A few weeks before heading on this two day adventure, I learned that Thomas Shilter was visiting Switzerland for a few weeks. We had been talking on Instagram for a couple of months since we are both Peruvians and love climbing mountains but we had never met in person. We decided to make plans to climb something together, and the Eiger was a mountain we both had been wanting to climb for a while. So on the morning of Saturday 14th we met for the first time in Grindelwald with the intention of heading up to the Mittellegi Hut and summitting the Eiger the next morning.

Day 1:
We took the train to the Eismeer Station where we went down these tunnels that took us right to the glacier, with the view of the Mittellegi Hut in the distance. We crossed a few crevasses until we reached a wall where we prepared to start climbing a slabby section of granite (Rated 4b/5.7), which luckily for us was bolted because climbing it in hard mountaineering boots was a real challenge. Once we went up these 2-3 pitches, the rest was an easy scramble. Two an d a half hours after getting on the glacier, we were at the hut, getting ready to have dinner and discussing the logistics for the next morning.

Day 2:
We headed out at around 5 AM, it was still dark so we scrambled up the Mittellegi ridge with our headlamps on. There was only dry rock so we continued climbing without our crampons, switching leads every so often. The way to the summit had it all, we scrambled up some easy class 3 and 4 sections, we climbed up some thick fixed ropes past some wet and icy exposed sections, we pitched a few difficult boulders wearing our crampons and finally we walked up a snowy ridge to the summit. It took us 5 and a half hours to reach the summit from the hut and we were extremely happy. We just had about 7 more hours to go for the descend (via South Ridge), which turned out to be just as technical (but in a different way) than the route to the summit. By 6ish PM we were at the Mönch Hut eating dinner and rewarding ourselves with some good dessert 😁

Social Media
If you want to keep following our adventures checkout our Instagram:
Andres Vourakis:   / andresvou  
Thomas Schilter:   / thomas_schilter  

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Camera Equipment
Vlogging: Gopro Hero 9
Photography and b-roll: Fujifilm X-T4 with 16-24mm lense and 56mm lense

Inspirations
These are some of the channels that inspired me to start making these videos. I highly recommend you check them out :)
Marco & Alice:
   / @avventuriamocitutti  
Mediocre Amateur:
   / @mediocreamateur  
Nikolai Schirmer:    / @nikolai_schirmer  
Kraig Adams:
   / kadamsmedia