Roger Schaeli Repeats Eiger 5.12d for Historic Send

Strong climber Roger Schaeli has made the likely second ascent of the 900-metre La Vida Es Silbar up the north face of the Eiger. The route was first climbed in the late ’90s and freed in 2003 by Ueli Steck and Stephan Siegrist. Schaeli was joined by Mayan Smith-Gobat. According to PlanetMountain.com, It took the two climbers three days with two bivies on the wall. Smith-Gobat is recovering from an operation, but managed to free nearly the entire route.

This was the most difficult route up the Eiger until Paciencia 5.13b was completed in 2003 by Steck and Siegrist. In 2015, Schaeli, Robert Jasper and Simon Gietl sent the 1,400-metre Odyssee 5.13c, the current hardest route on the famous north face.

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A photo posted by Roger Schaeli (@rogerschaeli) on Sep 15, 2016 at 3:09pm PDT