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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 exotic as Mars, only...
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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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 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...
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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.
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.
