Resumen:
The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father. In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II successfully submitted some of the most treacherous mountains in Europe. But it was the north face of the Eiger that became Harlin's obsession. Living with his wife and two children in Switzerland, he spent countless hours planning to climb the massive vertical face. It was the Eiger direct with which John Harlin was particularly obsessed. John Harlin III was nine years old when his father made another attempt on a direct ascent of the notorious Eiger. When Harlin's rope broke, 2,000 feet from the summit, he plummeted 4,000 feet to his death. In the shadow of tragedy, young John Harlin III came of age possessed with the very same passion for risk that drove his father. But he had also promised his mother that he would not be an Alpine climber. For years he successfully denied the clarion call of the mountain that killed his father. But in 2005, John Harlin could resist no longer. |
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