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Heinrich Harrer was born on 6 July 1912 in Hüttenberg, Austria, as the son of a postal worker. He developed an interest in skiing and mountaineering at a young age. He studied geography and sports at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz from 1933 to 1938.
While Heinrich Harrer held the rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, he was a world renowned mountaineer and on expedition in the Indian Himalayas when he and his group were arrested by British forces at the outbreak of World War II. With his escape to Tibet (where he stayed until 1951) he never saw active combat.
Jan 9, 2006 · Controversial Mountaineering Legend Heinrich Harrer Dies. Austrian explorer Heinrich Harrer's long and rocky life, from Hitler's elite SS guard to his friendship with the Dalai Lama and...
Jan 8, 2006 · Jan. 8, 2006. Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who fled a British prisoner of war camp in India for the northern Himalayas, where he befriended and tutored the Dalai...
Jan 14, 2006 · Austrian mountaineering legend Heinrich Harrer is dead at 93. He was a pioneering climber, an Olympic skier, a tutor to the Dalai Lama... and a member of Hitler's SS. He was the subject of the...
Heinrich Harrer | explorer and writer | Britannica. Contents. Heinrich Harrer. explorer and writer. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with the 14th Dalai Lama. In 14th Dalai Lama: Life in Tibet. …as from the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer during the latter’s seven years in Tibet. Read More. Jaya Peak. In Jaya Peak.
Jan 19, 2006 · Obituary. Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer and explorer, died on January 7th, aged 93. Jan 19th 2006 |. Keystone. WHEN Heinrich Harrer gazed for the first time on Lhasa, the capital of Tibet,...
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