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 | The White Spider | Harrer relates the history of mountain climbing on the North Face of the Eiger in all its grisly detail, including his team's first successful attempt in 1938. |
| by Heinrich Harrer | ||
| Score: 6.5 | ||
| Published: 1959 | ||
| Read: May 2nd 2012 |
Comments
John said
Interesting and sometimes chilling historical tales of the climbs and (usually) the subsequent rescue attempts during a fascinating evolutionary period of mountaineering techniques and philosophy. Just occasionally the language seemed very clumsy - maybe the fault of the translation.