After this was revealed by the German magazine Stern in 1997, he expressed regret for his involvement with the. He became the friend and tutor of the young Dalai Lama and finally accompanied him into India when he was put to flight by the Red Chinese invasion. Heinrich Harrer was a Nazi sergeant in the SS.

He stayed there for seven years, learned the language and acquired a greater understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner had ever before achieved. By an almost super-human effort, on his third attempt he succeeded in escaping from the internment camp and fled into Tibet.Īfter a series of remarkable experiences in a country never crossed before by a Westerner, Harrer reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. Quarto (9 x 13), bound in pure Bure white silk imported from. An Austrian national, he was imprisoned by the British in India. Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. A film tie-in edition to the new film starring Brad Pitt and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud of one of the greatest and most enduring travel accounts of the. Adapted from the eponymous memoir by Heinrich Harrer.

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