Eiger, The Mordwand in Winter

Black and white fine art of the Eiger North Face in winter. The 1,800-metre limestone wall rendered in shadow and ice, with the White Spider ice field and key features of the Mordwand visible. Fine art by Jürg Kaufmann.

Eiger, The Mordwand in Winter

Eiger, The Mordwand in Winter

The Nordwand rises from the meadows of Grindelwald like a wall at the edge of the world — nearly 1,800 metres of dark limestone, banded with ice, holding its own weather. They called it the Mordwand, the murder wall — a name earned by sixty-four lives lost to its avalanches, rockfall and indifferent storms. In monochrome, the face becomes pure architecture: the vast sweep of the icefields, the fractured ramparts of the Ramp, and high above it all the White Spider — that spectral ice field from which frozen veins radiate like the legs of something ancient and patient. There is no colour here to soften what the mountain is. Only stone, ice, shadow, and an authority that does not ask to be admired.

  • Height — 3,967 m (13,015 ft)

  • First Ascent — 11 August 1858, Charles Barrington with Christian Almer and Peter Bohren (west flank)

  • First North Face Ascent — 24 July 1938, Heckmair, Vörg, Harrer, Kasparek

  • Coordinates — 46°34′42″N, 7°59′36″E

  • Range — Bernese Alps, Berner Oberland, Switzerland

  • North Face Casualties — At least 64 since 1935

The Edition

Limited to 15 signed originals and 2 Artist's Proofs — across all formats and dimensions. Once complete, no further originals will be produced.

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Diasec face-mount and alternative substrates available on request. Available up to 250 cm width.

Individually produced and hand-signed. Framing consultation and large-format installation guidance included.

Each original accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

 
 

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