11 August, 1957
Italian mountaineer Claudio Corti is rescued from the top of the Eiger (3970m).
Albert Winkler
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1957 Photo Contest
Julio Florez Angel
Stanislaw Jakubowski
Héctor Rondón Lovera
Horst Faas & Michel Laurent
Walter Studer
Henning Christoph
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Gérard Klijn
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Oskar Treichel
Ernest E. Miller
Douglas Martin
Nikola Bibic
Simon E. Smit
Leos Nebor
Zygmunt Wdowinski
Jaap J. Herschel
Robert Edwards
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