The White Spider

The White Spider

By Heinrich Harrer

Pages

364

Rating

4.11

Year

1959

AdventureTravelHistoryBiographyMountaineeringNonfiction

Description

The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer and his comrades in 1938, but also the earlier, tragic attempts on a wall of rock that was later enshrined in mountaineer Jon Krakauer's first work, Eiger Dreams.