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John Harlin III is editor of the American Alpine Journal and contributing editor for Backpacker. A former cohost of PBS's Anyplace Wild, Harlin is a frequent contributor to numerous publications, including Outside magazine. He lives in Hood River, Oregon, and Oaxaca, Mexico, with his wife, Adele Hammond and their daughter, Siena.
It's the differences between the father and the son, not the similarities, that infuse this book with such poignant force * Men's Journal * As close to being a 'page turner' as any climbing-related book I've read since Touching the Void -- Stephen Goodwin * Alpine Journal * 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 * 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 * 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 *
