- Published: 3 August 2009
- ISBN: 9780099525141
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $32.99
The Eiger Obsession
Facing the Mountain That Killed My Father

















- Published: 3 August 2009
- ISBN: 9780099525141
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $32.99
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
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
As close to being a 'page turner' as any climbing-related book I've read since Touching the Void
Stephen Goodwin, 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