Posted on 01/10/2006 7:20:45 AM PST by Grendel9
(Filed: 09/01/2006)
Heinrich Harrer, the Austrian climber and traveller who died on Saturday aged 93, accomplished two remarkable feats of daring.
In 1938, in one of the greatest mountaineering feats of the time, he was in the first party successfully to climb the notorious North Face - or "Murder Wall" - of the Eiger, in the Swiss Alps.
Later, after escaping from a British PoW camp in India, he traversed the length of Tibet, reached the "Forbidden City" of Lhasa and became tutor to the young Dalai Lama ... Harrer wrote a record of his adventures, Seven Years in Tibet, which was published in Britain in 1953. Translated into English by Richard Graves, with an introduction by the travel writer Peter Fleming, the book was an immediate popular success. ...
Bump.
Yes, an amazing man to say the least. The movie was good too!
Is there a link to the whole article?
The movie distorted the story. His book was much better.
Sure.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JK3FZK2RRXC0HQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?menuId=558&menuItemId=-1&view=HEADLINESUMMARY&grid=P9&targetRule=10
Easier just to go to:
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main
GThen to the left OBITUARIES
Thanks so much.
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