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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.
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.
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...
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: 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...
Heinrich Harrer was an accomplished mountaineer who successfully summited the formidable North Face of the Eiger in 1938, a remarkable feat at the time.
Interview with The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Heinrich Harrer, 1992 - 480p. A Lasting Friendship: A Film of His Holiness, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Austrian explorer, Heinrich Harrer,...
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.
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...
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and former Nazi who befriended the young Dalai Lama and was portrayed by actor Brad Pitt in the film “Seven Years in Tibet,” has died. He was...