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Eiger Routelines Poster gift sub an ardent conservationist planted aUnlike the quiet southern side, the Nordwand or the Eigerwand belongs as much to the watching public as it does to the individual climber. For anyone who sets foot on the mountain, it is real. The rock is hard and cold to touch, Martin Gutmann writes in The Theater of History, Mountain Profile The Eiger Part II (1939 2012). Since the first ascent in 1938, hundreds of climbers have etched, then repeated, new paths up this looming alpine face. In the