The white spider

The classic account of the first ascent of the Eiger North face! This is an
account of the attempts to climb the notorious North Wall of the Eiger, in
1938. The author was a member of the first party to climb the face, and
although the book describes the grimness of the terrain, he attempts to
communicate the joy of climbing as well as the hazards.

A classic of mountaineering literature: this title tells the story of the
harrowing first ascent of the Eiger’s north wall.

Heinrich Harrer was born in 1912 in Carinthia. His skiing prowess won him a
place in the 1936 Austrian Olympic team. He was imprisoned by the British in
India during World War II, but escaped and traveled to Tibet, a story he
recounts in the classic Seven Years in Tibet.