This is an unforgettable story about fathers and sons, climbers and mountains, and dreamers who dare to challenge the earth.
John Harlin III is editor of the American Alpine Journal and contributing editor for Backpacker. A former cohost of PBS's Anyplace Wild, Harlin is a frequent contributor to numerous publications, including Outside magazine. He lives in Hood River, Oregon, and Oaxaca, Mexico, with his wife, Adele Hammond and their daughter, Siena.
In his gripping, graceful account of his own attempt on the Eiger
some 40 years after his father's fall in 1966, Harlin elegantly
combines a frank biography of his frequently absent parent, "the
Blond God", as he was dubbed by the press, with a vivid memoir of
his own childhood.
*Sunday Times*
Excellent ... Superbly written ... John Harlin III has shown a
non-specialist public that he can write lucidly and beautifully
about mountains and the men and women who live for them, die on
them ... It deserves to be read
*Independent*
At once a tribute to a legendary climber and a celebration of a
very personal triumph, this book will captivate the imagination of
anyone who reads it.
*Booklist*
As close to being a 'page turner' as any climbing-related book I've
read since Touching the Void
*Alpine Journal*
It's the differences between the father and the son, not the
similarities, that infuse this book with such poignant force
*Men's Journal*
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