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Published on: 2007-03-06
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In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Gutsy and gorgeous - he was known as 'the blond god' - Harlin successfully summitted 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 Leysin, Switzerland, he spent countless hours planning to climb, waiting to climb, and attempting to climb the massive vertical face. It was the Eiger direct - the direttissima - with which John Harlin was particularly obsessed. He wanted to be the first to complete it, and everyone in the Alpine world knew it. John Harlin III was nine years old when his father made another attempt on a direct ascent of the notorious Eiger. Harlin had put together a terrific team and, despite unending storms, he was poised for the summit dash.It was the moment he had long waited for. 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, a beautiful and brilliant young widow, that he would not be an Alpine climber. Harlin moved from Europe to America, and, with an insatiable sense of wanderlust, he revelled in downhill skiing and rock-climbing. For years he successfully denied the siren call of the mountain that killed his father. But in 2005, John Harlin could resist no longer. With his nine-year-old daughter, Siena - his very age at the time of his father's death - and with an IMAX Theatre filmmaking crew watching, Harlin set off towards the Eiger. Category:BBC DocuWiki Articles in category "BBC" There are 4329 articles in this category. The 1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud; 10 Days to War; The 10 Million Challenge; 100 Seconds to Beat the ... News: Breaking stories & updates - News Telegraph Latest breaking news including politics crime and celebrity. Find stories updates and expert opinion. Category:Name - DocuWiki Articles in category "Name" There are 11556 articles in this category. 0 to 60mph: Britain's Fastest Kids; The 1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud; 10 Days to War vostfr.club Vostfr.club est le site de rfrence pour vos sous-titres franais de qualit rfrenant tous les titres disponibles sur opensubtitles.org en y ajoutant Movie Reviews - The New York Times German Concentration Camps Factual Survey German Concentration Camps Factual Survey completed and restored is a ghastly essential record of the ... Climbing Books of the world - Bill Buxton Home Page Everest General . For an overview of the literature on Everest from first sighting until first summit see my essay From First Sight to Summit: A Guide to the ... BBC Documentaries: Complete Episode List - TheTVDB BBC Documentaries All Seasons. Episode Number: Episode Name: Originally Aired: Image: 1936 x 1: Television Comes to London iceFilms.info - Globolister div style="font-size:12px;text-align:center;"Vote for iceFilms.info on globolister:br /a href="globolister.com/details?site=2916&vote=1" target="_top ... List of sports films - Wikipedia This compilation of films covers all sports activities. Sports films have been made since the era of silent films such as the 1915 film The Champion starring Charlie ... GERMAN DVDS - worldonlinecinema Private investigator Aloys experiences life at a safe distance through watching surveillance tapes. But when his father dies he is left on his own and his sheltered ...
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