THE WHITE SPIDER; The Story of the North Face of the Eiger
London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout, and Route Map to the North Face.
Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Illustrated by photographs, including a fold-out. 240 pp., including index. Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket. Item #84968
The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost..." (from rear dj flap).
Price: $125.00