L’ossessione dell’Eiger

Year: 2008 Pages: 320 The North of the Eiger is the dream of all top mountaineers. Many lost their lives there. It also happened to the American John Harlin, who fell from that wall in the winter of 1966 while trying to open a new, very direct route, which was later completed and named after him. Harlin left behind a young widow and two young children, and a trauma that seemed impossible to overcome. John junior promised his mother that he would never become a mountaineer, but the passion he had absorbed from his parent from an early age kept him constantly in contact with the vertical world, making him understand that he would not have peace until he had climbed the mountain that had cost his father his life. And indeed that was the case. This book tells how Harlin Jr., in 2005, finally managed to put an end to his obsession, overcoming not only the infamous wall but above all his own ghosts.