He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Ink name on fep Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 - 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.
In 1997 a major motion picture was made based n this book, starring Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer and David Thewlis as his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter. Harrer was born in 1912 and passed away in 2006 at the age of 93.
It is his experiences during those seven years that give the story it's name. Seven years later he was forced to flee Tibet when the Chinese overtook the country. This book tells of the author's autobiographical experience escaping from a British internment camp in northern India during World War II to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where he established a strong relationship as a friend and tutor to the young Dalai Lama. A strong friendship developed between the two that would last the rest of their lives. Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about ice skating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. In 1948, Harrer became a salaried official of the Tibetan government, translating foreign news and acting as the Court photographer. The author escaped from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his dramatic trek through rugged Himalayan passes to sanctuary in the Forbidden City of Lhasa.
Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 - 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. 314, illus., map, weakness to rear board, pencil notation inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and scuffed: small tears, edges worn.
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