The white spider : the story of the north face of the Eiger /

• Main Author: Harrer, Heinrich 1912-2006 (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Maix, Kurt (συγγραφέας.), Merrick, Hugh (μεταφραστής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Granada, c1959.
• Subjects: Ορειβασία; Eiger (Ελβετία) > Περιγραφή και ταξίδι.

Harrer recounts in detail all of the first attempts and successes on the Face through the first 25 years of its climbing history, beginning with Max Sedlmayr's and Karl Mehringer's disastrous try in 1935, through the first successful ascent by a German-Austrian party in 1938, of which Harr...