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Heinrich Harrer

    July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006

    Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, Tibetan traveler and non-fiction author. From 1933 he was a member of the then still illegal SA in Austria. In 1938 he was one of four first climbers of the Eiger north face, which was enthusiastically celebrated by National Socialist propaganda. Harrer became a member of the SS, where he was Oberscharführer, and the NSDAP. In the autumn of 1939, after an expedition to Nanga Parbat, he was interned in India, fled to Tibet and lived there until 1951. During this time, he became a confidant of the 14th Dalai Lama. His book Seven Years in Tibet and its film adaptation made Harrer widely known. In 1962 he succeeded in the first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid in western New Guinea. Since 1983, the Heinrich Harrer Museum has been located in Hüttenberg.

    Heinrich Harrer
    Erinnerungen an Tibet
    Bilder aus Tibet
    Return to Tibet
    Beyond Seven Years in Tibet
    The White Spider
    Seven years in Tibet
    • A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner before him. More recently made into a film starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is a stunning story of incredible courage and self-reliance by one of the twentieth century’s best travel writers.

      Seven years in Tibet
    • The White Spider

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.1(3617)Add rating

      A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.

      The White Spider
    • Beyond Seven Years in Tibet

      • 511 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.9(62)Add rating

      Heinrich Harrer, traveller, explorer and mountaineer led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. This biography describes all his adventures, from the early days of climbing in the Alps, through his time in Tibet, to his expeditions including exploring the Congo with the King of Belgium and travels to remote parts.

      Beyond Seven Years in Tibet
    • Return to Tibet

      Tibet after the Chinese occupation

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.6(396)Add rating

      Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his bestselling SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET told of an idyllic life on the 'rooftop of the world', before Harrer was forced to flee from the invading Chinese armies. Thirty years later, he returns to describe how the Chinese have attempted to destroy this ancient civilisation. Meeting old Tibetan acquaintances, including the Dalai Lama now living in exile in northern India, Harrer examines the current thaw in Peking's relations with this isolated and mysterious country. In its vivid evocation of Tibet, past and present, Return to Tibet provides a fascinating insight into the durability of this profoundly spiritual culture.

      Return to Tibet
    • Heinrich Harrer - Sieben Jahre in Tibet - großartige Fotos einer alten Kultur. Das alte Lhasa ist nicht mehr. Der Einmarsch der Chinesen markierte das Ende einer Kultur, um die sich Legenden ranken. Kein Europäer war so mit ihr vertraut wie Heinrich Harrer, der für diesen Band noch einmal sein einzigartiges Fotoarchiv geöffnet hatte. Mythen, Familiensitten, Marktgeschehen, Alltag in Tibet - hier wird eine dem Untergang geweihte Zivilisation, wie sie wirklich war, liebevoll und fröhlich gezeigt.

      Bilder aus Tibet
    • Erinnerungen an Tibet

      • 219 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      „Vierzig Jahre nach seiner Flucht vor den chinesischen Invasoren entschied sich Harrer, dieses einzigartige Bildmaterial zu veröffentlichen. Seine Fotos zeigen das Leben der Menschen auf dem “„Dach der Welt“„, ihre Sitten und Vergnügungen und geben einen tiefen Einblick in eine dem Untergang geweihte Kultur.“

      Erinnerungen an Tibet
    • Heinrich Harrers Expedition zu den eisbedeckten Gipfeln der Tropeninsel Neuguinea wurde zu seinem gefährlichsten und strapaziösesten Abenteuer. Es gelang ihm jedoch als erstem, die Nordwand der berühmten Carstensz-Pyramide, des höchsten Fünftausenders der pazifischen Inselwelt, zu bezwingen. Aber sein Weg führte ihn auch über zahlreiche Gebirgsketten hinweg, durch unwegsame Täler und reißende Urwaldströme in die geheimnisumwitterten Dschungelgebiete zu den Siedlungen der Kopfjäger, die gerade erst aus der Steinzeit erwacht zu sein schienen: den Papuas. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

      Ich komme aus der Steinzeit