num_pages: 364
description: 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.
language: English
title: The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
titlecomplete: The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
genres: Biography, Outdoors, Climbing, Adventure, Mountaineering, Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports, Travel, History
ratings_count: 4082
publisher: TarcherPerigee