Anderl Heckmair Book order

Anderl Heckmair: My Life is a fresh translation of thenewly expanded and updated classic memoir, My Life as aMountaineer. Heckmair revisits his early childhood,recalling that he was so delicate his mother literallypacked him in cotton wool for his first few years. Hetalks about his family's financial difficulties,culminating with his ......

Anderl Heckmair will be remembered for his first ascent of the Eiger North Face. Famed as both a fanatical mountaineer and a refuted Nazi sympathizer. In My Life, which details a sordid childhood and transforming mountaineering ambition, it is possible to glimpse an intense and often tragic world of politics, and a true love of the mountains.