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This prequel to the bestselling Seven Years in Tibet covers the years immediately leading up to Heinrich Harrer's Tibetan adventure, recounting the young climber's legendary ascent of a mountain that ranks with Everest and Denali: the North Face of the Swiss Eiger.

The White Spider dramatically re-creates not only the harrowing first ascent of the Eiger made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the previous, tragic attempts on a wall of rock that has long been enshrined in books and film.

For a generation of American climbers, The White Spider has been a formative book, yet for many years it has been unavailable in this country. This edition of the classic work awaits discovery by Harrer's new legion of readers.

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LV Hiker

Entertaining

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This book deals with some climbing more technical then I'm familiar with but I still found it to be an entertaining read.

Posted May 15, 2007 2:20 am

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