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Heinrich Harrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps.
Sep 30, 1997 · Learn about the life and adventures of Heinrich Harrer, who climbed the Eiger, escaped from a POW camp, met the Dalai Lama and wrote Seven Years in Tibet. Discover the controversy over his Nazi past and the film adaptation of his book.
Jan 10, 2006 · 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...
Jul 3, 2023 · Subscribed. 377. 14K views 9 months ago HÜTTENBERG. A Lasting Friendship: A Film of His Holiness, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer, in Hüttenberg, Austria, 1992...
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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...
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.
