The disaster on Mount Eiger is one of mountaineering’s most infamous tragedy’s. Mount Eiger stands at 3967 meters tall and is located in the Bernese Alps of Switzlerland overlooking Grindelwald. At the time, the north face of the mountain had never been climbed from bottom to top, and in 1936 a ten-man team who were backed by the nazi party, believed they had what it took to be the first to do so, they were wrong. The north face of Mountain was notoriously treacherous, with many people dying in the past trying to be the first to reach the summit.