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Heinrich Harrer
Harrer in the 1930s
Born
Heinrich Josef Harrer
(1912-07-06)6 July 1912
Hüttenberg, Austria-Hungary
Died
7 January 2006(2006-01-07) (aged 93)
Friesach, Austria
Nationality
Austrian
Alma mater
University of Graz
Occupations
Mountaineer
Sportsman
Geographer
Author
Known for
Seven Years in Tibet (1952) The White Spider (1959)
Spouses
Charlotte Wegener
(m. 1938; div. 1943)
Margarethe Truxa
(m. 1953; div. 1958)
Katharina Haarhaus
(m. 1962)
Relatives
Alfred Wegener (father-in-law)
Website
www.harrerportfolio.com
Heinrich Harrer (German:[ˈhaɪnʁɪçˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps. While on expedition in the Indian Himalayas, Harrer and his group were arrested by British forces because of the outbreak of World War II and he escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951 and never seeing active combat. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).[1]
^Martin, Douglas (10 January 2006). "Heinrich Harrer, 93, Explorer of Tibet, Dies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
HeinrichHarrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and SS...
autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant HeinrichHarrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during...
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English translation of Austrian mountaineer and Nazi SS sergeant HeinrichHarrer's Seven Years in Tibet (originally published in German in the 1940s);...
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would in 1938 marry the famous Austrian mountaineer and adventurer HeinrichHarrer, while in 1939, Käte married Siegfried Uiberreither, Austrian Nazi...
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climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer HeinrichHarrer, New Zealand mountaineer Philip Temple, Australian rock climber Russell...
surrounded by coral reefs and has a tropical climate. A 1977 report by HeinrichHarrer described a man as 1.60 metres (5 ft 3 in) tall, possibly because of...
Helena Blavatsky Fritjof Capra Leonard Cohen Alexandra David-Néel HeinrichHarrer Hermann Hesse Carl Jung Jon Kabat-Zinn Friedrich Nietzsche Henry Steel...
Norbu; Harrer, Heinrich (1961). Tibet is my country: the autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, brother of the Dalai Lama, as told to HeinrichHarrer Thubten...
His daring escape from a camp at Dehradun in 1944 with mountaineer HeinrichHarrer is documented in Magener's memoir, Prisoner's Bluff. After the war...
winter ascent. On 24 July 1938, with Anderl Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg and HeinrichHarrer, he made the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger. This climb...
Geoffrey Bull, and George Patterson; Austrians Peter Aufschnaiter and HeinrichHarrer; and the Russian Nedbailoff. The army, in particular, had Japanese...
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