New speed climbing record set in the Swiss Alps
A Swiss and Austrian climbing pair have shattered the speed record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains - the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
Switzerland's Nicolas Hojac and Austria's Philipp Brugger shaved nearly ten hours off the previous record set more than two decades ago.
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