[[Jon Krakauer]], aside from the detailed recounting of the climb of the mountain in his book [[Eiger Dreams]], mentions it briefly in [[Into Thin Air]] as one of his earlier difficult ascents (1992): I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre; buffeted by hundred-knot winds, plastered with frangible atmospheric rime, it was once (though no longer) thought to be the world's hardest mountain.