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Heinrich Harrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian SS sergeant, mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, and geographer. 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, in July 1938.
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...
Sep 30, 1997 · In 1939, a young climber named Heinrich Harrer, who had achieved fame for being a member of the first team to scale the north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, traveled to India on a climbing...
Heinrich Harrer, noted Austrian explorer and mountaineer, escaped over the Himalaya from a prisoner-of-war camp in British India with Peter Aufschnaiter, to eventually find refuge in the “Forbidden City” of Lhasa, where they lived and worked as a civil servants for the Tibetan government.
Heinrich Harrer was an accomplished mountaineer who successfully summited the formidable North Face of the Eiger in 1938, a remarkable feat at the time.
Jul 3, 2023 · A Lasting Friendship - Featuring Tenzin Gyatzo, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, & Heinrich Harrer, noted Austrian explorer and author of SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, 1944-1951, interviewed in Hüttenberg ...
Jan 14, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer: 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 10, 2006 · The Dalai Lama has said with the passing away of Heinrich Harrer, the Austrian who spent years in Tibet, “We feel we have lost a loyal friend from the West.” Harrer died on January 7, 2006 in Austria.
Heinrich Harrer has 56 books on Goodreads with 92993 ratings. Heinrich Harrer’s most popular book is Seven Years in Tibet.
Heinrich Harrer (1912 - 2006), noted Austrian explorer and mountaineer, escaped over the Himalayas from a prisoner-of-war camp in British India, arriving in Tibet in 1944, and then lived and worked as a fifth-ranked nobleman in the forbidden city of Lhasa.
