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Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, and geographer who made the first ascent of the Eiger North Face in 1938. He also escaped from a British prison in India and lived in Tibet for seven years, where he wrote Seven Years in Tibet.
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peter harrer son of heinrich harrer heinrich harrer biography rolf harrer Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer, a swashbuckling explorer who told of his magical life of conquering the world's highest peaks and tutoring the young Dalai Lama when Tibet seemed as exotic as Mars, only to have...
Peter Aufschnaiter (2 November 1899 – 12 October 1973) was an Austrian mountaineer, agricultural scientist, geographer and cartographer. His experiences with fellow climber Heinrich Harrer during World War II were depicted in the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet.
Apr 30, 2022 · In 1930s British India, Harrer and fellow-Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter are on an expedition to climb Nanga Parbat when WW II breaks out. The two are captured as prisoners of war but eventually escape and cross into Tibet.
Jan 14, 2006 · Harrer and his colleague Peter Aufschnaiter had escaped from a British camp in India where they were interned (because of their Austrian nationality), after an abortive assault on...
The book covers the escape of Harrer and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India. [1] Harrer and Aufschnaiter then traveled across Tibet to Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail.
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Oct 10, 1997 · It has been widely reported that Seven Years in Tibet, the tale of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer’s trek through Tibet and his relationship with the Dalai Lama, was nearly released with...
