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Jan 9, 2006 · "With Heinrich Harrer, mountaineering has lost a leading personality," he said. The right-wing governor of Carinthia province, Jorge Haider, said Harrer was "an ambassador for peace and ...
Jul 3, 2023 · A Lasting Friendship: A Film of His Holiness, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer, in Hüttenberg, Austria, 1992. For more infor...
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Heinrich Harrer ( Pronunție în germană: /ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ/; n. 6 iulie 1912, Hüttenberg (d), Carintia, Austria – d. 7 ianuarie 2006, Friesach (d), Carintia, Austria) a fost un alpinist, sportiv, geograf și scriitor austriac. El este cunoscut ca membru al echipei de patru alpiniști care a efectuat prima ascensiune pe ...
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 Lama, has died. He ...
Jan 10, 2006 · Heinrich Harrer with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who presented him with ICT’s Light of Truth Award in Graz, Austria, October 15, 2002. 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. He ...
Heinrich Harrer has lived, for the past 40 years, in Liechtenstein near the Swiss border. The retired mountaineer will celebrate his 79th birthday on July 6, a birthday coincidentally shared with the Dalai Lama, and celebrated by Tibetans as a holy day.
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.
