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Jan 9, 2006 · Sun 8 Jan 2006 19.14 EST. Heinrich Harrer, the mountaineer and champion of Tibet who has died aged 93, first arrived in Lhasa in January 1946 as a penniless refugee, wearing a tattered...
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...
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 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...
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. …led by an Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer. Read More.
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,...
Aug 20, 2009 · Heinrich Harrer. Penguin, Aug 20, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 368 pages. In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as...
