THE WHITE SPIDER; The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
by Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Illustrated by photographs, including a fold-out. 240 pp., including index. The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost..." (from rear dj flap).
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84968
- Title
- THE WHITE SPIDER; The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
- Author
- Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing,
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