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[Snowman]

26 June 2018 at 10:08:38 #889237

< The mountain on the left is surely the Eiger. >

I’m not so sure, really. But what puzzles me most is how can someone who climbed the Eiger not remember it. Unless you are one of a dozen world top climbers, you would not climb the Eiger alone, you would hire a guide, use a rope, a helmet, a harness, etc.. I don’t know the particulars of Sunnyrosa’s mother, but “normally” she should remember.

[rockoyster]

26 June 2018 at 10:19:52 #889238

Suppose it is just an artist’s impression of the Alps unrelated to any particular location. Peaks, clouds etc etc etc. . .

[Removed user]

26 June 2018 at 11:19:14 #889239

Thank you for those detailed images.

I hadn’t looked closely at the shape of the mountain on the top left until I saw your comment.

sunnyrosa

[Removed user]

26 June 2018 at 11:21:13 #889240

The picture was painted by a Japanese woman who is not alive now.

She wrote many books, and my mother is a big fan of her.

My mother wants to know where she visited in Switzerland.

sunnyrosa

[Removed user]

26 June 2018 at 11:28:16 #889241

Hi rockoyster,

Thank you for your comment!

That is an interesting idea from the whole new perspective.

The woman who painted the picture wrote books, and she was not a painter or an artist.

So I’m thinking the picture depicts an actual location.

But it may be that she painted it based on her memory and imagination after she came back from the mountain.

sunnyrosa

[Snowman]

26 June 2018 at 12:10:52 #889242

Slowpoke,

< the pylon for a ski lift >

I think it’s an ice axe, not a pylon.

upload.wikimedia.org/w ikipedia/commons/c/c2/ Ice_axe.png

[Snowman]

26 June 2018 at 12:25:52 #889243

Here is a list of Japanese climbers who climbed the Eiger North face in 1969. One of them is a lady doctor:

Imai, Kato, Kato, Negishi, Kubo, Amano

(Source : http://www.planetmountain.com /en/news/alpinism/eige r-north-face-japanese-diretissima-freed-by-jasper-and-schali.html )

[Slowpoke]

26 June 2018 at 15:51:27 #889244

<<“This picture was painted by a Japanese woman (I cannot ask her because she is not alive now).

The handwriting says it was 1996, and I heard she climbed a mountain of 3,500m (about 11,483 feet) the same year.”>>

<<<” She wrote many books, and my mother is a big fan of her.

My mother wants to know where she visited in Switzerland.”>>

Hi Snowman-

Sunnyrosa’s mother was not the climber.

Even if she did climb the Eiger, she might have taken the easier route up the west face

Agree on the ice axe.

All of that reinforces my comments earlier that the image may not be strictly realistic.

Slowpoke

[Removed user]

27 June 2018 at 12:08:21 #889245

Thank you for the link to a detailed website.

It seems her name is not in the list…

sunnyrosa

[Slowpoke]

27 June 2018 at 12:25:40 #889246

There are other routes up the Eiger, if it matters

[Removed user]

27 June 2018 at 12:46:04 #889247

She was not a professional climber, so I’m not thinking she climbed Eiger.

sunnyrosa

[Snowman]

27 June 2018 at 15:43:37 #889248

< It seems her name is not in the list… >

There is no comprehensive list (that I know of) of Eiger climbers. The only lists that I found include only special achievements (first one on a particular route, new time record, etc.). There are so many climbers that it is probably not possible to keep track of all, esp. if you include the non-north-face routes, and incomplete attempts. I guess we’ll never know for sure.