Word: eiger
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...Nazi whose 1953 memoir, Seven Years in Tibet, was the basis for the 1997 film, in which he was played by Brad Pitt; in Vienna. A onetime SS member who later renounced Nazism, Harrer was a skilled alpinist. In 1938 he took part in the first ascent of the Eiger north face in Switzerland. The next year, he embarked on a Himalayan expedition that led to his stay in Tibet, during which he became a teacher, adviser and friend to the Dalai Lama...
DIED. RODNEY WHITAKER, 74, best-selling author known to millions internationally as Trevanian, one of several of his pen names; of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; in England's West Country. His thrillers, notably The Eiger Sanction, which became a 1975 film starring Clint Eastwood, were translated into more than a dozen languages and prompted comparisons to such critically esteemed storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe and Chaucer...
...this Dershowitz was Nathan Z. Dershowitz, a partner in the Manhattan firm of Dershowitz and Eiger and the younger brother of the Harvard Law School professor...