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...woman who had given her account of the courtship of Joseph and the Virgin Mary: "It is difficult to know what, if anything, she had in mind when she decided to tell the Age-Old Story with nothing new to add." He deplored Trevanian's habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder...
Such an acute focusing of effort cannot be repeated endlessly. A German mountaineer who in his 20s spent three frightful weeks on the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland during midwinter laughs about the recollection and says that he does not do such things now that he is in his 30s. He pulls out his wallet like a traveling businessman and shows a picture of his wife and two sons. "This is what I think about...
DIED. Jean Juge, 70, Switzerland's best-known mountaineer, and former president of the International Alpine Association; of exposure; on the Matterhorn, Switzerland. Though he had scaled the treacherous north face of the Eiger, Juge's greatest ambition was to conquer the summit of the Matterhorn. With two young climbers he reached the top, then began the 14,688-ft. descent in slippery conditions after the country's worst rain and snow in 25 years. Too tired to continue, Juge stayed on the mountain while his companions went for help. When a helicopter came to his rescue...
...EIGER SANCTION, by contrast, is straightforward stuff, featuring Clint Eastwood pulling some derring-do on the side of one of Switzerland's highest mountains...
Here, for fearful lowlanders, is the second crime novel in a year that characterizes mountain climbers as homicidal maniacs. (The first was The Eiger Sanction, an inferior but celebrated book by a pseudonymity called "Trevanian...