The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
Published: 09/28/1998
ISBN: 9780874779400
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.53w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/21/1998 pg. 67