by Heinrich Harrer · Harper Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586088746
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«The White Spider» is Heinrich Harrer's mountaineering account, published by HarperCollins in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Heinrich Harrer recounts the attempts to climb the north face of the Eiger in 1938, a dangerous wall in the Swiss Alps. Harrer was part of the first team to complete the ascent and reconstructs the extreme harshness of the terrain, the dangers of the route and, at the same time, the enthusiasm that high-altitude climbing arouses.
The 1989 edition is revised; Heinrich Harrer's original appeared in German as «Die Weiße Spinne» in 1959.
For fans of alpinism, the history of mountaineering and true adventure stories.
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. A year later in 1939, he and the climbing team went on an expedition to the Indian Himalayas, where they were arrested by British colonial authorities due to the outbreak of World War II. He eventually escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951. He is the author of two autobiographical books, Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).
