Product DescriptionThis 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.
FeaturesThis is a soft cover book
364 pages
Copyright 1998
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| LV Hiker | Entertaining | | 
Hasn't voted | 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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