Europe, 1963 |
 In December 1960 I bought this copy of Heinrich Harrer’s book, The White Spider, and was entranced by Harrer’s account of attempts to climb the North Face of the Eiger. (Harrer, incidentally, was one of the first four people to climb the notorious Nordwand.) As a result, one of my two main destinations in Switzerland was Grindelwald, where I went to see … |