!!!Harrer, Heinrich

Harrer, Heinrich, b Huettenberg (Carinthia), July 6, 1912, alpinist, 
explorer. In 1938 was the first to climb through the North Wall of the 
Eiger (Switzerland), in 1939 exploratory expedition to Nanga Parbat, 
during World War II was interned in India, fled to Tibet and stayed in 
Lhasa until 1951, personal friend of the Dalai Lama. Expeditions to: 
the Andes in 1953, Alaska in 1954, Ruwenzori in 1957 and to New Guinea 
in 1962/1963. Awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 
1995. The H.-H. Museum in Huettenberg (Carinthia) was established in 
1982.

!Works
7 Jahre in Tibet, 1952 (film version 1997); Die weisse Spinne, 
1958; Tibet, verlorene Heimat, 1960; Lost Lhasa, 1992.


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