On Episode 274 of the Enormocast, I connect over the Atlantic with Swiss alpinist, guide, and Eiger North Face aficionado, Roger Schaeli. Roger was born directly in the Swiss alps and learned to climb at an early age with his father. Surrounded by deep Swiss climbing culture, an early accident did not deter Roger, rather … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://enormocast.com/2023/11/enormocast-274-roger-schaeli-in-the-shadow-of-the-eiger/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Enormocast 274: Roger Schaeli – In The Shadow of the Eiger"</span></a></p>

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Enormocast 274: Roger Schaeli – In The Shadow of the Eiger

With 35 years of climbing experience and going on 14 years behind the mic, Chris Kalous brings interviews, tributes, discussion, tears, and lots of laughs from the full breadth of the climbing zeitgeist. Rock climbing, bigwall (big wall?) climbing, alpinism, ice climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. If it’s climbing related, it’s here. In the words of Alex Honnold, “If you are a climber, you pretty much have to do the Enormocast.”