The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

Type

Book

Authors

Heinrich Harrer

ISBN 10

0874779405

ISBN 13

9780874779400

Tags

History of Sports, Mountain Climbing, Caving & Spelunking, Adventure, Travel Writing, Mountaineering -- Switzerland -- Eiger -- History, Eiger, Eiger (Switzerland) -- Description and travel, Mountaineering, Travel, Switzerland -- Eiger

Description

The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts at a wall of rock that was recently enshrined in mountaineer Jon Krakauer's first work, Eiger Dreams. For a generation of American climbers, The White Spider has been a formative book--yet it has long been out-of-print in America. This edition awaits discovery by Harrer's new legion of readers.

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