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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger Paperback - 1998
by Heinrich Harrer
This "prequel" to the bestselling "Seven Years in Tibet" covers the years immediately leading up to Harrer's Tibetan adventure, recounting the young climber's legendary ascent of the North Face of the Swiss Eiger.
Summary
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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- Title The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
- Author Heinrich Harrer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York
- Date 1998-09-28
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780874779400 / 0874779405
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.53 x 1.06 in (21.08 x 14.05 x 2.69 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Eiger (Switzerland) - Description and travel, Mountaineering - Switzerland - Eiger -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98023179
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.522
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 09/21/1998, Page 67
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Putnam Publishing Group, 1998. Softcover. Good. 5x1x8. This riveting account of his ascent and the history of confronting the Eiger--beginning with the first fatal attempts to conquer the north face in 1935--is a crisply written paean to the mountain where Harrer first earned recognition as a world-class climber. A simple narrative style brings to life the many obstacles faced by Eiger climbers--snowstorms, avalanches and a continuous shower of falling rocks among them. Harrer has a Hemingwayesque appreciation of the codes, bravery and rules of conduct governing the closed world of true mountaineers. And he reserves special contempt for the sensation-seekers who gather to watch deadly feats of climbing from the ground below. Sections that document the evolution of climbing gear (Harrer wore no crampons on his 1938 ascent) and national rivalries in the WWII-era climbing community help make this volume an important contribution to the emerging canon of mountaineering literature.
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