Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain That Killed My FatherA historic memoir by the noted Alpine climber and journalist who undertakes an epic climb of The Eiger in Switzerland the very same mountain that not only made his father "Eiger John" famous, but killed him in 1966. 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