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Climb Magazine Offer

Written by Tom Briggs, April 2008

Climb Magazine are offering Jagged Globe News readers a special discounted subscription rate:

UK - £30.00 / 1yr subscription (12 issues)
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Rest of the world - £65.00 / 1yr subscription (12 issues)

(These prices are discounted from the RRP which is £42.00, £72.00 and £96.00 respectively.)

To subscribe, please visit the Climb Magazine website and enter one of the following codes during the application process:

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The May issue is now available and includes a photo report of Uli Steck's sub 3 hour Eiger North Face solo:

UELI STECK BREAKS SPEED RECORD SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

The Eiger has always been something of a theatre for Alpine showmanship and records are well documented. The first (and little-known) one-day ascent of the famous �38 Route took place as long ago as 1950, but it was in 1969 that Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner turned the world of Alpinism upside down by racing up the climb in an astonishing 10 hours. This was an achievement light years ahead of its time and remained more or less unbeaten by a roped pair until very recently: Roger Sch�li and Hanspeter Hug knocked two hours off the record in October 2007.

Not content with that, on the 28th January this year, Sch�li with Simon Anthamatten, both from Switzerland, climbed the classic 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger in just six hours and 50 minutes. When Anthamatten stepped onto the face in January, he had previously never made a complete ascent of the 1938 Route, although Sch�li knew the terrain in detail, having climbed it nine times already. Filmgoers will immediately recognise Anthamatten and Sch�li as the actors playing Andreas Hinterstoisser and Toni Kurz in Joe Simpson�s film, The Beckoning Silence, which documents the wellknown and tragic attempt on the North Face by four young Austro-Germans, two years before the eventual first ascent.

FREE Mountain INFO downloads at Climb Magazine

Mountain INFO is now exclusively available on-line via the Climb Magazine website FREE!! Whilst 4 taster pages will continue to be printed in the magazine each month, the full article will only be available on-line. This internationally acclaimed resource has been added to our extensive online 'Archives' as a fully downloadable pdf. You will be able to view and print off Mountain INFO at the touch of a button, 24/7 via the Climb website at www.climbmagazine.com

For over 35 years Mountain INFO has been the essential place to research Alpinism, big walls and mountaineering expeditions throughout the world. An intrinsic part of Climb Magazine, Mountain INFO is edited by the well known and respected mountaineer, Lindsay Griffin, who uses his worldwide contacts, built up over many years - to bring first-class information and quality images to you. Now, to enable you to access this massive resource more easily we are making it freely available online. Search for places of interest to plan your next expedition and keep yourself up-to-date with what is happening in the world of mountaineering.

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