Heinrich Harrer in Tibet

Eighty years ago, in 1946, the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006) first reached Lhasa. Harrer had escaped a British internment camp in India with Peter Aufschnaiter (1899-1973) to begin their epic 21-month journey through the Himalayas, crossing over 60 mountain passes, to reach freedom in Tibet. He was to record these experiences in the book Seven Years in Tibet (1953), which was made, in 1979,  into a Hollywood film. Continue reading