Jury

The jury for the Eiger Award comprises mountain professionals, amateur mountaineers, members of the tourism industry and press who are independent and themselves have neither personal economic nor touristic interests.

Jury members are personalities who with their position, and / or their popularity, help promote public awareness of the Eiger Award.

Every year the jury is elected by the Committee.

Of all the all applications received, the Jury elects 3 nominations for the Eiger Award. In an online voting, the public votes for the nominee.


Jury members in 2010:

Tom Dauer, mountaineer and journalist, Warngau / Germany
Röbi Koller,  journalist, Zurich / Switzerland (Coordinator of the jury)
Stephan Siegrist, extreme climber, Interlaken, Switzerland
Erich Sommer, mountain guide, Grindelwald, Switzerland 
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, extrem climber, Bühl, Deutschland 
Michi Wärthl, extreme climber, Neubiberg, Germany
Simone Moro, extreme climber, Ponterancia/Italien