John Harlin II died in 1966 while attempting the notoriously challenging North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. His son, John Harlin III, a skilled mountaineer and editor of the American Alpine Journal, revisits the climb 40 years later.
The Alps
A young climber embarks on a perilous ascent up the treacherous North Face of the Eiger, a route that holds deep emotional significance as it was the same path where his father's life was lost 40 years prior.
