[Mobile ebook] The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
♥ Heinrich Harrer ♥
| #111445 in Books | 1998-09-28 | 1998-09-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.00 x5.40l,.89 | File Name: 0874779405 | 400 pages
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Riveting and spellbinding first-hand story of the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand after several deadly attempts|By Jerome Ryan|In the 1930s the Eiger Nordwand (North Wall) was considered the last and greatest of Alpine problems left in the world. The White Spider is a portion of the upper face where snow-filled cracks radiate from an ice-field resembling the legs of a spide|From Publishers Weekly|At 13,025 feet, the Swiss Eiger doesn't approach the height of Everest or Denali, but the sheer rise and difficulty of its 5900-foot north face keeps it in the company of the world's most celebrated peaks. At the time Harrer (Seven Years
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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